Top Acting Quotes

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

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.

Acting Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act

(a.) Operating in any way.

(a.) Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

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.

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

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.

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

Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In sh...

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

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf o...

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

On the great canvas of timeWe all create our own masterpiece.Choreographing our steps across minutes and hoursDancing over the daysPainting pictures over months andWriting our stories on the years.Sin...

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Mart...

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

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

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.

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: t...

I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the year...

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experienc...

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension....