Acting From Actors Quotes:

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Real, Acting, Best Acting, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Acting, Pay, Benefits, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Acting, Best Acting, Cattle

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

- Michael Caine

topic: Acting, Pay, Firsts, Film Actors, Acting From Actors

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

- James Dean

topic: People, Acting, Needs, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

- Glenda Jackson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Essence, Dressing Up, Acting, Best Acting, Stripping

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

- Kate Reid

topic: Emotional, Acting, Able, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Fake People, Truth, Secret Life, Just Live Your Life

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Gentleman, Acting, Actors, Best Acting, Music Hall

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Character, Play, Acting, Best Acting, Simpletons

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Acting, Needs, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

topic: Practice, Acting, Stage Actors, Stage Acting, Acting From Actors

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

- Bette Davis

topic: Acting, Wonder, Creation, Best Acting, Stage Acting

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Funny, Mean, Men, Best Acting, Stage Acting

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Barbara Stanwyck

topic: Truth, Fake, Made, Secret Life, Being Truthful

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Art, Character, Exercise, Cathartic, Power Over Others

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Artist, Feelings, Acting, Stage Acting, Stage Actors

Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

- Paul Newman

source: "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

topic: Live Life, Mean, Giving, Acting From Actors

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

- Elaine Dundy

topic: Acting, Acting From Actors

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

- Ellen Barkin

topic: Giving, Secret, Acting, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Funny, Success, Art, Minerva, Best Acting

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

- Bertolt Brecht

source: Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

topic: Men, People, Acting, Good Actors, Best Acting

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Acting, Doe, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

- Constantin Stanislavski

topic: Acting, Actors, Remember, Film Actors, Acting From Actors

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Perfect, Acting, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: People, Personality, Acting, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Actors, Film Actors, Acting From Actors, Actors And Acting, Theatre Actors