Acting Quotes

Acting Quote of the day

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

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

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.