1,862 Quotes About Acting

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

The problem with being an adult most of your life is not having been a child long enough.(08/26/2019)

If its not worthy don't think, not true don't speak, not right don't act.

Despair is what happens when you think without acting.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

The trouble with me is, I always have to read that stuff by myself. If an actor acts it out, I hardly listen. I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phony every minute.

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.