Best Acting Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That’s still incoherence. It’s not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Acting’s entertainment. It’s not brain surgery.

Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

Acting is my calling, not my career.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women’s ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men’s relations with women.

I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I’m so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It’s very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don’t have to think about them.

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

Acting is really not what I’m interested in. I’m not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That’s what acting is about.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it’s a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

My step-father, who is a Marine, introduced me to the Marine Corps’ Officer scholarship that could get me a degree, help me grow up and I can still pursue a future in acting after my time in service.

It’s important for me to be free and know I’m acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that’s important. You want to be your own person.

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

You can’t expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you’re thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you’re seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.