(1132 quotes found)
“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic”
Winston Churchill
“The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Seneca
“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 Gustav Jung
“I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.”
“The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.”
Reese Witherspoon
“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
“The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it”
Sophia Loren
“Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde
