Acting Sayings & Quotes
These acting sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection. More related quotes, act.I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. - Alec Baldwin
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. - William Hazlitt
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. - Seneca
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. - Simone Weil
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. - Carl Gustav Jung
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement. - Albert Einstein
Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this. - Confucius
One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker, you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement. - Andre Gide
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known. - John Calvin
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore, history and poetry, to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge. - Archibald MacLeish
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques] - John Burroughs
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. - William Faulkner
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience] - Gilbert Keith Chesterton