Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.
~ W. Boyd Gatewood
The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.
~ Kenneth Tynan
There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi get me a Herschel Bernardi type get me a young Herschel Bernardi and who is Herschel Bernardi?
~ Herschel Bernardi
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.
~ Janis Joplin
In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
~ Rex Reed
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
~ James Agate
Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king.
~ Josephine Hull
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.
~ Eugène Ionesco
As an actor he should be an extra in police line-ups.
~ Robert H. Gurney
I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?
~ Camryn Manheim
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
~ Alicia Witt
My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.
~ Jessie J
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
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
~ Octavia Spencer
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
~ John Malkovich
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
~ Catherine Deneuve
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
~ David Duchovny
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
~ Andrew Scott
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.
~ Anupam Kher
With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.
~ Ronald Kessler
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.
~ Josie Bissett
Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.
~ Erika Christensen
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
~ Ving Rhames
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
~ William S. Burroughs
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
~ Olivia Wilde
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
~ Annette Bening
If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.
~ Rebecca Hall
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
~ Galileo Galilei
My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.
~ Kristin Bauer Van Straten
I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.
~ Joelle Carter
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
~ Jeff Bridges
A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
~ Mark Ruffalo
I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.
~ Vin Diesel
Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.
~ Kid Cudi
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
~ Ellen Pompeo
