Acting quotes
610 acting quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Tootsie
“- Ron: I'm sure you're a very good actress. It's just that you're not threatening enough.
- Dorothy Michaels: Not threatening enough? Listen, you take your hands off me or I'll knee your balls right through the roof of your mouth! Is that enough of a threat?
- Ron: It's a start.” - From the movie: Delirious
“He's operating on people? He's an actor! Not even a good one!”
- From the movie: Fame
“I hate Ralph Garci! I must remember this feeling and use it in my acting!”
- From the movie: Revolver
We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The "hip, hip, hoo-fucking-rah". Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Cos we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.
- From the movie: Ali
“Sonny Liston, you ain't no champ! You a chump!”
- From the movie: Stage Door
“- Anthony Powell: You are a faker!
- Terry Randall: Oh, we're both fakers. Isn't faking the essence of acting?” - From the movie: Malibu's Most Wanted
“- Sean: You a long way from the beach now, punk! We in South Central! The ghetto! The projects!
- Sean: We run hardcore up in here. People get killed here errrrrrry day!
- PJ: [throws up signs] yay yaaaaayyyyy!
- Sandy: Shondra, can you come over later? Princess just had puppies.
- Shondra: [sweetly] Okay, Sandy. Bye.
- PJ: [after B-Rad gives...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Nixon
“I miss making love to the people. I miss entering a room. I miss the pure acting of it, John. I gotta get back in the arena.”
- From the movie: California Suite
“- Diana Barrie: You should have never given it up, Sidney.
- Sidney Cochran: What?
- Diana Barrie: Acting! Christ, you were good. You had more promise than anyone.” - From the movie: The Last Metro
- From the movie: Tootsie
“- Sandy: No, I'm not worried about that audition.
- Michael Dorsey: Why? Why are you so worried?
- Sandy: Because I'm not gonna get it, I'm not gonna get it, because I'm completely wrong for it.
- Michael Dorsey: Why, what kind of a part is it?
- Sandy: A woman!” - From the movie: Moulin Rouge!
“- Christian: When you thought I was the Duke, you said that you loved me, and I wondered if...
- Satine: It was just an act?
- Christian: Yes.
- Satine: Of course.
- Christian: Oh. It just felt real.” - From the movie: Moon Over Parador
“- Jack Noah: Why couldn't you get Bobby DeNiro or Dustin Hoffman?
- Roberto Strausmann: Not available! I would have given my right arm to work with Bobby DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman!” - From the movie: Stage Beauty
“Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head but he never taught you how to suffer like a woman, or love like a woman. He trapped a man in a woman's form and left you there to die!”
- From the movie: Slacker
“Every action is a positive action, even if it has a negative result.”
- From the movie: Stardust Memories
“- Vivian Orkin: In this film, he played the part of God.
- Ghost of Sandy Bates: This was not easy, folks, because, uh, you know, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and I don't have a good voice for God.
- Vivian Orkin: And he received an Academy Award for his convincing portrayal of God... although they had to use another actor's voice.” - From the movie: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
“Mom always wanted me to be on the stage.”
- From the movie: Moon Over Parador
“Play the part, or I'll kill you.”
- From the movie: Tune in Tomorrow...
- From the movie: Spider-Man
“- Mary Jane: I wanna... act. On stage.
- Peter Parker: Really? Well that's perfect. You were awesome in all the school plays.
- Mary Jane: Really?
- Peter Parker: Yeah. I cried like a baby when you played Cinderella.
- Mary Jane: Peter, that was first grade.
- Peter Parker: Well, even so...” - From the movie: Chaplin
“The tramp can't talk. The minute he talks, he's dead.”
- From the movie: State and Main
“I'm gonna solve it here or this bimbo you sent me is gonna be doing a donkey act on public access television. Her tits, her tits, her tits, her tits. That she signed in her contract! We hired her because of 10 years at the Actors Studio, the way she played Medea? Her last 2 pictures lay there on the screen like my first wife.”
- From the movie: Beyond the Sea
“- Sandra Dee: I've never worked with somebody so unprofessional in my life. I mean, have you ever even acted before?
- Bobby Darin: Well, I'm learning but let me tell you something, blondie, you're not exactly Audrey Hepburn.” - From the movie: Letter of Introduction
“Yes, it spoils the illusion. After all, there's no use of both of us being dummies.”
- From the movie: Galaxy Quest
“Jason, we are actors, not astronauts.”
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