Acting Quotes

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
James Caan

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Glenda Jackson

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson

I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.
Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch

If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor. There isn't anything that pays you as well as acting while you decide what the hell you're going to do with yourself. Who cares about the applause? Do I need applause to feel good about myself?







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