1,862 Quotes About Acting

I am very pleased that my commitment to acting as a transformative art form has been recognized ..... I did my best not to fall into clichés by observing the gay scene in Berlin in its most diverse forms, working also on my feminine side.

And the kiss?” Her frown was deep, sorrowful. “That was the script, too. I know. But I don’t see any difference. You held her like you held me. You even looked at her the same.”“I was acting.”“I know.” Tears brimmed her eyes. “That’s what I’m afraid of.

The curtain rises even on an actor's worst day.

I once got hit by revolving scenery in a production of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. It whacked my hip, bruised my ego, got an unintentional laugh, but the show went on, and it still does.

She never feels more alive than at these moments. When onstage she fears nothing.

You either love who you are onstage, or you love who you are offstage. Nobody does both.

I went through the emotions as it was really happening to me, because that's what acting is after all. [...] All told, I was fake married three times on film before my 'real' marriage. By then, I was repeating an emotional scene I'd already played. Your entertainment comes at a cost to us performers.

As an actor, you trick and abuse your emotions, bringing pain up only to have to shove it back down when you hear, 'CUT!' I believe acting, dramatic acting, is a form of self-abuse. Take after take of pulling up dark emotions only to seal them up when camera stops rolling...

I wonder how much self-control and acting (mothers are very underrated actors) it took for her to quickly arrange her gestures into a composed expression and modify her voice so she sounded calm and reassuring.