1,862 Quotes About Acting

Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and aspects of their consciousness into a continuous whole. They find many parts of their experience alien, as if belonging to someone else. They cannot remember or make sense of parts of their past.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.

Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your life right now.

When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the same for an actor with a new role.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!