Acting Quotes

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

Catherine Hicks
- Religious
- Artist
- Teacher
I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
- Acting
- Actors
- Heard

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

Paul Giamatti
- Acting
- Silly
- Dress Up
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

Rutger Hauer
- Hate
- Taken
- Feels
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Declan Donnellan
- Nature
- Acting
- Mechanism
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.

Esther Renay Dean
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

Catherine Austin Fitts
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

Warren W. Wiersbe
- God
- Thinking
- Christian