Actors' quotes about acting

“I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.”
Pat Morita

“People want to be disturbed when they go see a horrormovie.”
Eli Roth

“Acting is largely a matter of farting about in disguises.”
Peter O'Toole

“If it works, that's The Method.”
Jack Nicholson

“I pretty much try to stay in a constantstate of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
Johnny Depp

“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
Gene Kelly

“Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.”
Kristin Davis

“Lubitsch's method of direction was perfect for me. He would act out the whole scene — and then he'd say, 'Now let's see how you'd do it.'”
Jack Benny

“A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.”
Will Smith

“I don't go around shooting off my mouth about the problems of acting. In fact I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a re-actor.”
John Wayne

“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
Shelley Winters

“'High Noon' was the most un-American thing I have ever seen in my whole life. The last thing in the picture is old Coop putting the United States marshal’s badge under his foot and stepping on it. I’ll never regret having run out of this country.”
John Wayne

“You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?”
Bud Abbott

“There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.”
Heath Ledger

“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
Frank Capra

“Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.”
Spencer Tracy

“Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.”
Spencer Tracy

“Becoming an actor can be embarrassing. Having to cry in front of the world, or be seen naked on screen. It's also a virtual confession that you had a rotten childhood or are some kind of emotional cripple.”
Henry Fonda

“Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.”
David Steinberg

“Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.”
Joanne Woodward

“It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.”
Jim Broadbent

“A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.”
Lindsay Duncan

“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.”
Jerome Stern

“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? ”
Jerry Lewis

“You treat characters like people you meet in life.”
Wes Bentley