Quotes About Acting

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

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

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.

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.

The play's the thing.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches, miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

It was truthfully an honor in itself to be able to act face to face with Choi Min Sik. I was really nervous, but his encouragement became a huge strength to me.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

Oh, yeah! Playing 'Young Jackie' came at the insistence of Roseanne herself. Mom obliged but told me that would not be an option again until I was 18. Truthfully, I grew up not thinking I would act.

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.