1,862 Quotes About Acting

We're not acting like a nation at war.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

'Six Feet Under' is irresistible Emmy bait, ... It's sophisticated, it's elitist in its sensibilities, it's very cynical and it's brilliantly written -- the writing and acting is first-rate. And it's about life and death, which gives it a kind of aesthetic importance.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

After our selling climax on Friday, we've had a couple pretty good days that brought in cash aggressively off the sidelines. This market is just acting better because of its own internal devices, not because of any specific development. There's good value and money coming in, which is impressive.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.