#Acting Quotes

“Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.”

“I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;Speak and look back, and pry on every side,Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw,Intending deep suspicion.”

“The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.”

“Never work with animals or children.”

“I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.”

“The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.”

“I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.”

“How could an actor become president?”

“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.”

“You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.”

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

“It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting”

“It was only in the theatre that I lived”

“An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.”

“I got started as an actor when I was 12.”

“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.”

“What does an actor know about politics?”

“Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.”

“I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.”

“When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.”

“To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.”

“The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.”

“With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.”

“I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.”

“Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.”

“One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.”

“Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.”

“The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.”

“I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.”

“I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.”

“I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.”

“I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.”

“You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.”

“Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.”

“I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.”

“Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.”

“Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.”

“The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.”

“Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”

“I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.”

“Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

“When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.”

“a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.”

“My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!”

“I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.”

“As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.”

“I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.”

“It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.”

“Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.”