Acting quotes

“- Gabriella Montez: Blowing off your friends, missing dates, if that's you, then it's good to know.
- Troy Bolton: No, no, no. I was only doing that because I'm working on the scholarship thing and you know that.
- Gabriella Montez: But if along the way you act like someone you're not, pretty soon that's who you become.”
Vanessa Hudgens - Gabriella Montez
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

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

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

“I love playing the bad guy, it’s always more fun, always more interesting.”
Robert John Burke

“To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.”
Peter Stormare

“There are no small parts; there are only small actors.”
Melanie Griffith

“I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life.”
Will Patton

“In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.”
Will Patton

“It's really challenging to play comedy.”
Michelle Monaghan

“There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.”
Eddie Marsan

“When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. ”
Bradley Whitford

“My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.”
Cillian Murphy

“Acting will always be just one of the variety of careers I’m working on at any given time. It’s fun, it’s important, and it helps pay the bills.”
Dale Dye

“If a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.”
Tobin Bell

“Years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.”
Rufus Sewell

“I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.”
Michael Sheen

“It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.”
Jamie Lee Curtis

“I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet.”
Michael Wincott

“I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.”
Elias Koteas

“The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.”
Tim Roth

“When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.”
Maggie Smith

“I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.”
Jennifer Coolidge

“I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.”
Brian Cox

“I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.”
Lawrence Kasdan

“The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.”
Wes Craven