Acting Quotes


Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. Bette Davis Acting 236
I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing. Gregory Harrison Acting 208
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. John Boorman Acting 182
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that youve got it made. George Burns Acting 135
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. Lee Strasberg Acting 131
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. Drew Barrymore Acting 107
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. William Hazlitt Acting 106
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. Rosalind Russell Acting 100
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo. Tom Wilkinson Acting 99
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting. Alla Nazimova Acting 98
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. Alicia Witt Acting 97
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself. Beatrice Wood Acting 95
I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise. Leslie Easterbrook Acting 93
This acting was very hard work. Jack Levine Acting 92
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. Judy Holliday Acting 90
On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly. Maggie Gyllenhaal Acting 90
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. Katharine Hepburn Acting 90
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. Beth Henley Acting 89
All the worlds a stage. William Shakespeare Acting 88
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting. Brian De Palma Acting 88
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! Ben Kingsley Acting 88
I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class. Kyle Chandler Acting 87
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. Jawaharlal Nehru Acting 86
Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend. Kat Dennings Acting 85
I will give you a show that you have never ever seen before…why?…Because I can. Shawn Michaels Acting 85
I dont belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino. Javier Bardem Acting 84
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting. Mark Ruffalo Acting 84
I really take acting seriously. John Corbett Acting 84
If you dont interfere with me Ill always do something really good. John Malkovich Acting 83
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. Bela Lugosi Acting 83
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. Sam Neill Acting 83
I do find acting cathartic. Francesca Annis Acting 83
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first. Rooney Mara Acting 83
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. William Shatner Acting 83
Acting is constant exploration. Paul Guilfoyle Acting 83
In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that. Corin Nemec Acting 81
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. Conrad Veidt Acting 81
I like to stretch my acting muscles. Samantha Morton Acting 80
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. Randal Kleiser Acting 80
I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old. Megan Gallagher Acting 80
I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me. Ted Lange Acting 80
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant Acting 80
The audience is not the least important actor in the play, and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces. Somerset Maugham Acting 79
There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time. Julie Benz Acting 79
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did. Hugh Jackman Acting 79
Acting is my first love. Dawn Wells Acting 79
I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting. William Kempe Acting 79
I always wanted to go into acting. Rupert Grint Acting 78
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater. Marisa Tomei Acting 78
To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground. Jill Hennessy Acting 78

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