Acting Quotes

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

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

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Acting like you don't care is not letting it go.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

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.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.