100+ Famous Acting Quotes of All Time

There are so many good acting quotes that have been said by many actors and even by people who are not into the acting field and with some short acting quotes and inspirational acting quotes we are here to show the greatest list of top and best ever acting quotes ever said.

So if you love acting quotes and want to read quotes on acting for knowing what other thinks about this famous profession then look below and read them:

1. Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. Claire Danes

2. Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. Annette Bening

3. Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. Alicia Witt

4. To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. Mike Krzyzewski

5. Modeling is really silent acting. Arizona Muse

6. There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor. Laurence Fox

7. I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself. Michelle Dockery

8. I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. Robert Downey, Jr.

9. I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy. Nick Frost

10. Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

11. Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing. Rosa Parks

12. When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger. Analeigh Tipton

13. If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that. Mason Cook

14. The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns

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

16. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. Aristotle

17. Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. Miranda Otto

18. True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. Corliss Lamont

19. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer

20. Just let the wardrobe do the acting. Jack Nicholson

21. I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before. Mel Gibson

22. Acting is happy agony. Jean-Paul Sartre

23. The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision. Caitriona Balfe

24. Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams

25. When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated. Ralph Nader

26. I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. Benedict Cumberbatch

27. Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. Carrie Fisher

28. Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. Katharine Hepburn

29. If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting. Itzhak Perlman

30. In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting. Gene Simmons

31. I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.' Harrison Ford

32. I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable. Lupita Nyong'o

33. Music is my life - acting's just a hobby. Steve Burns

34. The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant

35. Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. Robert Half

36. Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about. Jerry Hall

37. Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people. Adam Driver

38. Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. Peter O'Toole

39. I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing. Steve McQueen

40. Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. Denzel Washington

41. Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. Bill Murray

42. Acting is my passion, but I like hosting shows, too. Amy Jackson

43. Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. Jennifer Capriati

44. You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing. Tim Robbins

45. Acting is everybody's favorite second job. Jack Nicholson

46. It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious. Anushka Sharma

47. I was never hungry for this kind of attention; it was the love of performing that got me interested in acting. Ranveer Singh

48. To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. Fernando Pessoa

49. Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. Robert Downey, Jr.

50. So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. Todd Rundgren

51. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well. Michael B. Jordan

52. Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too. Diego Luna

53. It's very important to lead your own story: to not be acting as much as you are living. Nathan Phillips

54. If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. Ingrid Bergman

55. I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. Lord Byron

56. I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. Anthony Hopkins

57. Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up. Paul Giamatti

58. The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist. Lil Rel Howery

59. Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. Katharine Hepburn

60. Acting is a way of living out one's insanity. Isabelle Huppert

61. The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work. Richard Eyre

62. My acting gives me my self-worth. Elizabeth Banks

63. I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. Ava Gardner

64. Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation. Bette Davis

65. Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth. Daveed Diggs

66. I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film. Heath Ledger

67. White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. Paul Mooney

68. That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37. John Mahoney

69. Acting is always a challenge. Robert Downey, Jr.

70. I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting. Saoirse Ronan

71. Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk. Ruben Santiago-Hudson

72. My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works. Devon Werkheiser

73. I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. Amandla Stenberg

74. Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting. Alla Nazimova

75. I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability. Beverly D'Angelo

76. I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything. Eddie Murphy

77. I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting. Heath Ledger

78. I love acting and I have a lot of fun. Heath Ledger

79. Everything is acting. Marilyn Manson

80. Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. River Phoenix

81. Good acting is consistency of performance. Jim Dale

82. It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. Margaret Hamilton

83. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke

84. Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs

85. Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. Jason Bateman

86. It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. Eamon de Valera

87. Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded. Maika Monroe

88. I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting. Leighton Meester

89. I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing. Aaron Douglas

90. I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition. Sarah Snook

91. When I first started acting, I was just crap. Heath Ledger

92. In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. Robert De Niro

93. Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. Bo Bennett

94. Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. Johnny Knoxville

95. I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything. Elle Fanning

96. The foundation for film acting is stage acting. James Lipton

97. Acting makes you live plenty of lives. Emmanuelle Riva

98. Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. Katharine Hepburn

99. I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting. Brendon Urie

100. A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles

101. I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job. Millie Bobby Brown

102. I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Jim Henson

103. I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing. Adam West

104. Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis. Peter Falk

105. The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons. Michael Sheen

106. I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. John Hurt

107. Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in. Karen Gillan

108. I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%. Joey Lauren Adams

109. Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting. Mahesh Babu

110. In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can. Jesse Eisenberg

111. I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing. Yara Shahidi

112. I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really. Saoirse Ronan

113. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. Siegfried Sassoon

114. Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. Jackie Evancho

115. When I came to Mumbai, I had no experience in acting 'til I actually did it. Shaheer Sheikh

116. I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live. Astro

117. I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working. Kirstie Alley

118. You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself. Beatrice Wood

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