Acting Quotes

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.

Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

As important as it is to always think like a winner, acting like one is what matters the most.

A lot of people are quick to take negative suggestions from others, but slow to act on a positive advice. Yet, they wonder why their lives are very complicated.

If losing is mostly all you know, then it's obvious you haven't been thinking, acting, working, persisting, persevering, and walking like winners do.

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things

...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

Have a good looking is not worthy if you don't act just like your appearances.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

One play down and 497 to Go!

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

There is one thing setting a goal and one thing acting on it and another achieving it.

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

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

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

I don't think about a role as positive or negative. If I can play it convincingly, then I feel satisfied as an actor

He was cut from the scene like a case of the runs from a can-can routine.

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

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

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.

Taking decision and acting out our decisions leads to increase

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.

An actor is a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.

The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.

Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.