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"Acting is a form of confession."
Tallulah Bankhead
"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
George Burns (1896 - 1996)
“Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.”
John Gielgud
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.”
Kate Reid (1930-1993)
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
"An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease."
Michael Chekhov
"An actor can practice anywhere any time with anybody, and most of them do."
Archie Goodwin, in Death of a Dude (1969) by Rex Stout
"An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego."
Alec Guinness
"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."
William Shakespeare, "All the world's a stage", As You Like It, Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)
“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”
William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
Frank Capra (Italian born American Film Director, 1897-1991)
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
"If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."
William Hazlitt
“ Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
William Hazlitt
"Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.
John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."
John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
“The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself”
Will Rogers (American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935)
“We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs”
Maya Angelou (American Poet, b.1928)
"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
James Dean
"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
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."
Bette Davis
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