“They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.” PeopleActorsActingStrange Author:Ben Kingsley
“When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.” RealActingHellCaughtBeing Real Author:Billy Connolly
“Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.” Has BeensPlayCharacterFoundMy OwnActingRolesChildhoodHarder Author:Bette Davis
“Acting is pretending to be someone else.” ActingPretendingPretending To Be Someone Else Author:Anna Paquin
“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.” PeopleArtActingGroupsWittyTheatreLarge GroupsCoughing Author:Ralph Richardson
“With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.” FirstsEndsPurposeActingSpecialMirrorsModestyObservance Author:William Shakespeare
“I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.” AnimalPartyCouplePatientHalloweenCoatsCostumesLabsDressed UpVeterinarianBandagesHalloween And FriendsHalloween CostumeStuffed Animal Author:Tracy Chapman
“For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.” KnowsWantTryingWellsSaidBeautifulYoungEasyActingBeautiful Things Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.” ThinkingActingHonestInstinct Author:Sanford Meisner
“I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.” CareActingDangerousFameJokesIllusionDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Joe Strummer