Acting Quotes - page 2

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true. (Luise Rainer)
I was very interested in theatre-mostly in stage design but I did a little bit of acting. View quote
Jim Henson
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing. View quote
Matt Dillon
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. View quote
Nancy Reagan
Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. View quote
Michael Madsen
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. View quote
Rosalind Russell
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. View quote
Laurette Taylor
Acting is a form of confession. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. View quote
Barry Goldwater
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. (Bertrand Russell)
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
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. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
The art of acting is to be other than what you are. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
I love playing other people's work. I love acting. View quote
Eric Bogosian
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. View quote
Claire Danes
For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that. View quote
Salman Khan
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. (Melody Beattie)
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. View quote
William Boyd
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. View quote
Gaby Hoffmann
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. View quote
Glenn Close