1,862 Quotes About Acting

Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actorsand play many parts on the stage of life. Everyone is constantly in front of anaudience — or performing monologues when alone.

Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.

One play down and 497 to Go!

If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something...

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal.

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.