Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
That's what makes acting so attractive. You get to break all your own rules.
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Find in yourself those human things which are universal.
Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.