Best Acting From Actors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.”

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“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.”

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Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.”

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Author:Jack Lemmon

“The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.”

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Book:The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes

Source: The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes

“The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.”

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Author:Kate Reid

“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”

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Author:Michael Caine

“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.”

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Author:Glenda Jackson

“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”

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Author:Marlon Brando

“A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.”

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Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

“There are no small parts. Only small actors.”

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Author:Ginger Rogers

“Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.”

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Author:Ellen Barkin

“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”

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Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.”

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Author:James Dean

“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”

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Author:Elaine Dundy

“Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”

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Author:Paul Newman

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.”

“A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.”

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Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

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