Acting Quotes

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

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

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

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

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.