Acting Quotes

Acting Quote of the day

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

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

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

The play's the thing.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

All the world's a stage.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

Percy hefted a bronze grenade. ‘I hope you labelled these right.’ He yelled, ‘Die, Romans!’ and lobbed the grenade over the wall.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win.

One play down and 497 to Go!

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

Do not get down on your knees to pray just to show God that you always remember him. Instead stay on your feet, and always do as he would do in place of him.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Think slowly like a snail, act fast like a cheetah.