1,862 Quotes About Acting

Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

Life’s such a fucking Hallmark film. The worst kind of shit will happen, and all you can do is turn to camera with a rueful smile and apologise to the audience for the delay. Just keep the show going. Wrap it all up in a neat quote and promise things will return to normal. I hear all the world’s a stage. I only wish it showcased a play I could exist from. If only this story would end. But you can’t say things like that out loud. It sounds slightly too suicidal.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.

At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage…

Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.

This is catharsis. The act taps in, meets them where they are. It’s confusing, hollow. So incredibly sad. And so we’ll stay inside it a while. Not picking it apart. Not interrogating the hungry pain body, but just confirming. Yes. This place feels exactly this way. This is where you are. I get it.