Actors And Acting Quotes:

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

- Bette Davis

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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

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

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

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

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Dedication, Acting, Actors, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

- Thornton Wilder

topic: Art, Theatre, Acting, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

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

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

- Constantin Stanislavski

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

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

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

- Kate Reid

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

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

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

- Jane Fonda

topic: People, Trying, Acting, Actors And Acting

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Theatre, Acting, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

- Ethel Barrymore

topic: Ideas, Acting, Events, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

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

- W. H. Auden

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

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

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Real, Men, Voice, Actors And 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

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

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Husband, Devil, Acting, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

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

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

- Laurence Olivier

source: In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33

topic: Funny, Acting, Adults, Masochism, Masochistic

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

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

- Barbara Stanwyck

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

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Pride, Hands, People, Music Hall, Actors And Acting

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

- Ellen Barkin

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

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

- Ginger Rogers

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

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

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Actors, Realizing, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

- Paul Dalio

topic: School, Acting, Actors, Film School, Actors And Acting

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

- Tommy Wiseau

topic: Years, Acting, Actors, Stage Acting, Stage Actors