Acting Quotes

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

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

I might act like a rhinoceros, but I'm a unicorn.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

Anyone can act if he has the will to do so, and anyone who says he wants to but doesn't have the knack for it suffers from a lack of will, not a lack of talent.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

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.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

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.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting, and filling in blanks with imagination.

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

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

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.

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

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

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?''Life is a play, isn't it?

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

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

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.

It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Your true destiny is desperately waiting on you to start thinking, acting, and walking with faith and courage.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.

When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

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

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

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

If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well.

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.