1,862 Quotes About Acting

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

A lot of acting is private time.

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

The impact of an overvalued currency is starting to become more apparent ... the Bank of Canada may have to reconsider its assessment of how much the dollar is acting as a drag.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.