Quotes on acting
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.
Author, Unknown
I can see clearly now, that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Nixon, Richard M.
I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography.
Handey, Jack
"Mr. Golan Globus... this acting stuff is hard!"
Author, Unknown
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
Richardson, Ralph
"They've been acting weird all morning." - Tenchi
Author, Unknown
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
Russell, Bertrand
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.
Heimel, Cynthia
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Newman, Paul
Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.
Ann, Edith
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.
Jackson, Glenda
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Author, Unknown
"It's time we stopped reacting and started acting." - Hague
Author, Unknown
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Olivier, Sir Laurence
Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.
Author, Unknown