acting quotes

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

— Robert Redford

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

— Kurt Cobain

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ”

— Johnny Depp

“If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.”

— Steve Martin

“Everything is acting.”

— Marilyn Manson

“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.”

— Wayne Dyer

“When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.”

— James Dean

“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.”

— James Dean

“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'”

— Bill Cosby

“I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.”

— Ingrid Bergman

“If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.”

— Ingrid Bergman

“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”

— Joseph Stalin

“Acting is happy agony.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.”

— Michael Jordan

“Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.”

— Michael Jordan

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

— Edmund Burke

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

— George Burns

“The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

— George Burns

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

— William Seward Burroughs

“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.”

— William Seward Burroughs

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

— Oscar Wilde

“The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.”

— Anthony Hopkins

acting quotes

“I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.”

“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ”

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

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

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ”

“If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.”

“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.”

“Everything is acting.”

“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.”

“When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.”

“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.”

“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'”

“I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.”

“If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.”

“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”

“Acting is happy agony.”

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

“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.”

“Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.”

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

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

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

“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.”

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

“The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.”