Acting Quotes

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

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

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be ok.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.