Acting Quotes

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere. (Morgan Freeman)
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. View quote
Paulo Coelho
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. View quote
Edmund Burke
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. View quote
Carl Jung
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. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. View quote
John Travolta
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? View quote
Anna Freud
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. View quote
William Hazlitt
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be. View quote
Vivien Leigh
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. (Robert Downey Jr.)
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. View quote
Edith Evans
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo. View quote
Nicole Kidman
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing. View quote
Ralph Richardson
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. View quote
William Wordsworth
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. View quote
Chauncey Depew
Comedy is acting out optimism. View quote
Robin Williams
If you can do a part and not have the acting show. View quote
Jimmy Stewart
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. (Thomas Jefferson)
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking. View quote
Naomi Watts
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. View quote
Christopher Reeve
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too. View quote
Preity Zinta