1,862 Quotes About Acting

Follow your body because most of the time it knows where to go.

Actors read lines and change their facial expressions.

There was always a corpse when Death Troupe came to town.

That’s why I call you performers. Not actors—performers. Because when it’s time to prepare, you work out every nuance of a role. When it’s time to step in front of the crowd, you reach out and pull them in with both hands. When it’s time to say your lines, you deliver them with skill and meaning. That’s performance. And there’s nothing phony about that. There’s nothing pretend about that. There’s no acting that will take the place of that.

At times, circumstances conspire to make us believe the lies we tell ourselves. Everything- the weather, the season, the fall of light- sets the stage for our play; we find ourselves, instead of acting, becoming the characters, moving into a reality in which we're inseparable from our roles.

Being an actor is one of the hardest and easiest jobs a person can do. It is hard because you are always living as someone else. It is easy because your always living as someone else.

I am not an actor by profession but my life got stuck in people's reality show

I auditioned for the next play our director, Dominic, had lined up: A Midsummer Night's Dream, touring at several different parks in the Puget Sound area in July and August. Dominic cast me as Puck."A fairy?" Andy said, all innocence."I know you're not going to comment on that," I said."I could've made better jokes with 'Bottom.

It is not enough to discover the secret of a play, its thought and feelings—the actor must be able to convert them into living terms.