Acting Quotes

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Science, Insecurity

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Future, Live

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

Art, Keeping, Coughing

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

Men, Quality, Particular

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.
Michael Jordan

Same, Means, Jordan

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho

Mistakes, Two, Warrior

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Moment, Whole

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt Cobain

Busy, Here, Seen

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'
Bill Cosby

Success, Fool, Person

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking, Thoughts, Put

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
Charlie Sheen

Forget, Battle, Off

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

Time, Nice, Yourself

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Johnny Depp

Yourself, Play, Lying

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos

Leadership, Alone, Loneliness

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Play, Matters

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 Jung

Mind, Play, Creative

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Omar N. Bradley

Life, Live, Mind

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn

Perfect, Idiot, Profession

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

After, She, Four

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.
Rodney Dangerfield

Time, Himself, Emotions

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel

Fool, Yourself, Doubt

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

Mind, Times, State

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

Fake, Honesty, Made

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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Next, Planning, Arrived

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Fear, Mind, Passion

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs

Himself, Inside, Advantage

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

Life, Nothing, Idea

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old, Head, Quite

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