Acting Quotes

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Acting on dream without a plan can quickly become a nightmare.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Intelligence is a way of acting. If you act intelligently you are smart. Regardless of your IQ.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

A large part of acting is just pretending.

You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Think BIG, believe BIG, act BIG and the results will be BIG.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal.

Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible.

These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

Above all, ignore the audience....

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it.

The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape.

It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

I love the acting community at Cambridge.

It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.