1,862 Quotes About Acting

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

some kids can't do drama because their life is a lie

I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.

In the beginning, I had thought I might try acting for a while and see if it fit. As the work I was offered became more interesting it became my life. The challenge of doing it well at an ever-higher level appealed to me more than anything else. 104