List of Acting Quotes in English with Images
I think your self emerges more clearly over time. - Acting Quotes by Meryl Streep Download or Share |
- Acting Quotes by W. C. Fields Download or Share |
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. - Meryl Streep Download or Share |
- Acting Quotes by Bette Davis Download or Share |
- Acting Quotes by Oscar Wilde Download or Share |
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - George Burn Download or Share |
- Katharine Hepburn Download or Share |
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. - Acting Quotes by Kate Reid Download or Share |
- Acting Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Download or Share |
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. - Acting Quotes by Oscar Wilde Download or Share |
We're actors - we're the opposite of people. - Acting Quotes by Tom Stoppard Download or Share |
- Gerardine Clark Download or Share |
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. - Acting Quotes by Thornton Wilder Download or Share |
I need to go where people are serious about acting. - Meryl Streep Download or Share |
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Use what you know. Don't worry about what you don't know. - Acting Quotes by Michael Shurtleff Download or Share |
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. - Acting Quotes by Craig MacDonald Download or Share |
I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. - Acting Quotes by Michael Caine Download or Share |
An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease. - Michael Chekhov |
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words. - Sanford Meisner |
The work will stand, no matter what. - Meryl Streep |
Actors think more with their hearts than with their heads. - William Esper |
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. - Oscar Wilde |
The more personal, the more universal. - Gary Ballinger |
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind. - Stella Adler |
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active. - Michael Shurtleff |
Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential. - Michael Shurtleff |
Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge. - Michael Shurtleff |
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. - Meryl Streep |
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. - Sanford Meisner |
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler |
Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act! - Craig MacDonald |
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it. - Michael Shurtleff |
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things. - Tim Robbins |
That's what makes acting so attractive. You get to break all your own rules. - Gerardine Clark |
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. - Bette Davis |
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. - Rosalind Russell |
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. - Michael Shurtleff |
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - George Burns |
Find in yourself those human things which are universal. - Sanford Meisner |
Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before. - Michael Shurtleff |
The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. - W.H. Auden |
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. - Meryl Streep |
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. - Jack Lemmon |
Actors die so loud. - Henry Miller |
Good acting -- real acting is impossible to spot. Do you ever catch talents like Robert Duvall or Kathy Bates acting? No. I defy you to show me where. - William Esper |
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. - Miguel de Cervantes |
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself. - Michael Shurtleff |
Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life -- that's exciting. - Gene Hackman |
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. - Stella Adler |
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. - Meryl Streep |
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. - George Bernard Shaw |
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. - Meryl Streep |
Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice. - Michael Shurtleff |
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. - Meryl Streep |
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. - Michael Shurtleff |
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation. - Bette Davis |
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new? - Acting Quote by Michael Shurtleff |