(131 quotes found)
“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
“Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.”
John Gielgud
“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.”
Rosalind Russell
“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
William Hazlitt
“The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it”
Sophia Loren
“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.”
Bette Davis
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters”
Seneca
“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
“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
“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
