Acting Quotes

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.    Kate Reid

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Don Quixote, 1605

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

Roger Moore (1927 - )

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946

We're actors - we're the opposite of people.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)