Top acting Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of acting quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Toni Braxton
I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.
- Toni Braxton
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Image of Arthur Bloch
First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
- Arthur Bloch
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Image of Tony Randall
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting
- Tony Randall
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Image of Shelley Winters
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
- Shelley Winters
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Image of Ellen Page
The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.
- Ellen Page
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Image of Stella Adler
Acting is in everything but the words.
- Stella Adler
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Image of Suzi Quatro
I do love acting. It's my second love and I would love to do more.
- Suzi Quatro
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Image of Martin Sheen
While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
- Martin Sheen
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Image of Jack Paar
In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.
- Jack Paar
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Image of Chuck Yeager
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
- Chuck Yeager
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Image of Neill Blomkamp
There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.
- Neill Blomkamp
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Image of George Sanders
The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?
- George Sanders
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Image of Martin Mull
You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is
- Martin Mull
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Image of Roman Polanski
It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.
- Roman Polanski
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Image of Mickey Rourke
I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.
- Mickey Rourke
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Image of Patton Oswalt
I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.
- Patton Oswalt
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Image of Shemar Moore
I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.
- Shemar Moore
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Image of Gloria Reuben
And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!
- Gloria Reuben
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Image of Radha Mitchell
Doing nude scenes for me is totally fine. When you view it through the lens of a prudish, inhibited culture, then it becomes a little perverted. But the experience of acting is that you transcend your own experience.
- Radha Mitchell
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Image of Emanuel Swedenborg
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
- Emanuel Swedenborg
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Image of Dylan O'Brien
I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.
- Dylan O'Brien
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Image of Pete Wentz
The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.
- Pete Wentz
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Image of Corbin Bleu
I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes.
- Corbin Bleu
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Image of Danny Boyle
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
- Danny Boyle
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Image of Matthew Rhys
I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.
- Matthew Rhys
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Image of Jacqueline Bisset
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.
- Jacqueline Bisset
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Image of Liv Tyler
I've always enjoyed acting, but there's a part of me that's shied away from living a celebrity life. I don't feel comfortable being noticed all the time. Sometimes I even fantasize about doing things other than acting. But I can remember being back on set the third day of my latest project and going, "Ahh, this is what I have to do for a living." It's what makes me happy.
- Liv Tyler
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Image of Eddie Redmayne
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.
- Eddie Redmayne
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Image of Sarah Paulson
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
- Sarah Paulson
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Image of E. W. Kenyon
Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"
- E. W. Kenyon
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Image of Craig MacDonald
Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!
- Craig MacDonald
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Image of Emma Bunton
You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.
- Emma Bunton
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Image of Tammy Bruce
(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.
- Tammy Bruce
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Image of Sanford Meisner
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
- Sanford Meisner
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Image of Sanford Meisner
Every little moment has a meaning all its own.
- Sanford Meisner
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Image of Sanford Meisner
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances
- Sanford Meisner
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Image of Ally Carter
Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care
- Ally Carter
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Image of Barbara Windsor
They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.
- Barbara Windsor
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Image of John Cassavetes
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
- John Cassavetes
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Image of John Cassavetes
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
- John Cassavetes
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Image of Mark Goddard
I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.
- Mark Goddard
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Image of Ellen Terry
Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.
- Ellen Terry
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Image of Jay Baruchel
I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.
- Jay Baruchel
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Image of Clea DuVall
Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.
- Clea DuVall
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Image of John Frederick Boyes
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
- John Frederick Boyes
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Image of Michael Shurtleff
Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.
- Michael Shurtleff
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Image of Elsa Lanchester
I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.
- Elsa Lanchester
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Image of J. L. Austin
Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
- J. L. Austin
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Image of Liv Ullmann
Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.
- Liv Ullmann
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Image of Liv Ullmann
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.
- Liv Ullmann
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