Acting From Actors Quotes

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

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.

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

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 a matter of giving away secrets.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

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.

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

May the Force be with you.