1,862 Quotes About Acting

You're not flawed, darling, you're just a little under-rehearsed.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

The trick of acting is to believe the lie yourself, at least a little. Acting begins in the body. If you want to convince anyone of anything, you start with the way the body moves. It tells a thousand stories before you ever open your mouth.

He knows the only way to fake emotion'sto fake (but not too well) lack of emotionbut not to get too tied up in its absence(or, if you like, the pretence of its absence).

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

That's not who I am, and you aren't paying me enough to be an actor.

How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else's words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding? An attempt to forge that tenuous link between speaker and listener and communicate something, anything, of substance.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

Your past constructs your present and future, thereby making you a three-dimensional human being.