Acting Quotes
Sad Quotes about Acting

A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke

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

Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing
my fellow man for 66 years now,
and I would think that's the best school there is.
- Wilford Brimley

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre,
but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
- Kabir Bedi

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting
and direction as poetry is to prose.
- Elia Kazan

But most of what I've learned about acting -
and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years -
was taught to me by Robert Altman.
- Shelley Duvall

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake.
I said I would have to make good on my acting ability,
which was the only attribute I could offer.
- Teresa Wright

It stands to the everlasting credit of science
that by acting on the human mind
it has overcome man's insecurity
before himself and before nature.
- Albert Einstein

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me,
is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
- Benjamin Bratt

Acting is a form of confusion.
- Tallulah Bankhead

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
- Chauncey Depew

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell
just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
- Todd Rundgren

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
- Alan Rickman

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained
since I was in the eighth grade.
- Tia Carrere

I've never tried to learn the art of acting.
I have been in the business for years but I still can't
tell what acting is or how it's done.
- Paul Muni

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good,
because that's what acting and performing is all about -
being free.
It gives you a better connection to the audience.
- Brett Somers

I took acting and elocution lessons,
to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
- Maria Grazia Cucinotta

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting,
so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
- Sasha Alexander

My first love is acting on stage.
A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
- Judd Nelson

I do find acting cathartic.
- Francesca Annis

I ran spotlight.
Swept up.
Did box office.
Ran the lighting board.
But acting was the most fun.
- Tim Robbins

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
- Ice T

I like to say that I didn't choose acting -
acting chose me.
- Ving Rhames

I have done so much: modeling, acting,
singing, the calendar, the lingerie line,
and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
- Caprice Bourret

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
- Denzel Washington

And film acting is incredibly tedious,
just by its nature.
It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
- Hugh Grant

Acting's not my whole life.
My children definitely come first.
- Meg Tilly

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
- Charles S. Dutton

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

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things.
It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even
if it was just vicariously.
- Joan Allen

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television,
it was a real stigma.
- Christine Lahti

I must say acting was good training for the political
life which lay ahead for us.
- Nancy Reagan

Acting is easy and fun.
You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls.
The profession is given tremendous significance within our society,
but it's not really worthy of it.
- James Spader

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love
this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you.
That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
- Aaron Yoo

Be where the acting is.
I live in Houston.
Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away.
I let them know there's no difference.
- Vic Mignogna

If it's well written and well directed and you've got
good actors to work with,
acting is easy.
But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part.
It's very rare.
- John Lithgow

I like to act.
I work for scale.
I don't have an acting agent.
I'm in the book.
- John Sayles

I have no political aspirations, although a lot of
people believe that politics and acting go hand in hand.
- Rita Mero

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything
you've been told not to do,
and you don't have to deal with the consequences,
because it's only acting.
- Eliza Dushku

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
- Scott Caan

Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad,
and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
- Mark Hamill

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim
that it is acting on the defensive.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

A word does not frighten the man who,
in acting, feels no fear.
- Sophocles

You know something, if you're not acting,
you're not an actor - you've gotta work.
No way around it.
- Lance Henriksen

The real joy is in constructing a sentence.
But I see myself as an actor first because writing
is what you do when you are ready and acting is what
you do when someone else is ready.
- Steve Martin

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning
myself at this day with what appears at first sight
and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
- Arthur E. Waite

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
- Kevin Richardson

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that.
I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
- Aaliyah

There's so much more to life than that,
though I think that acting is fascinating because you
can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
- Beatrice Wood

Sean's a better person when he's directing.
He becomes a queen when he's an actor.
And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
- Robin Wright Penn

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.
- Mark Goddard

Vadim changed my mind about acting.
Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
- Brigitte Bardot

Acting is happy agony.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love;
he acts the parable of divine love by saving us.
That is the Christian faith.
- Austin Farrer

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft.
I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake
noses and changing your voice.
It's become so much about personality.
- Spencer Tracy

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
- Lily Tomlin

This acting was very hard work.
- Jack Levine

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
- Armand Assante

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.
- David Morse

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
- Stellan Skarsgard

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
- Janine Turner

I love acting.
It is so much more real than life.
- Fay Weldon

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously,
the acting part of it.
- Julie London

Never get caught acting.
- Lillian Gish

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters
differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
- Edward James Olmos

For me, acting is doing.
- Pierce Brosnan

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like
a very risky proposition and all my friends were going
to law school or med school or Wall Street.
- Wentworth Miller