(131 quotes found)
“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.”
Bette Davis
“I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be...”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary”
Thomas Betterton
“We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.”
Thomas Wolfe
“If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.”
Thornton Wilder
“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: - by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord”
Adolf Hitler
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
Aristotle
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
Albert Einstein
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund Burke
“I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
