Acting Quotes

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

Greg Curtis

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

John Malkovich

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

W.S. Gilbert

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Iyanla Vanzant

The world is shaped by two things stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Vera Nazarian

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Spencer Tracy

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

John Cusack

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

Juliette Lewis

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Elijah Wood

I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiring tremendously as I grew up. And that would be Spencer Tracy... and Bogart and that particular approach to the work. The stillness, the economy, the grace of that work, so they would have been then, my heroes on the screen.

Ben Kingsley

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Stephen King

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Elvis Presley

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Ginger Rogers

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

Paul Newman

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.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

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

Konstantin Stanislavisky

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Konstantin Stanislavisky