Acting quotes

“In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York people learn to act by walking down the street.”
Sidney Lumet

“The rules of improvisation apply beautifully to life. Never say no - you have to be interested to be interesting, and your job is to support your partners.”
Scott Adsit

“I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.”
Barkhad Abdi

“I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.”
Barkhad Abdi

“Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.”
Martin Landau

“Let me tell you something. You can continue to live in your little fantasy world with your baseball cards and the autographed bullshit or whatever the fuck is it you do, but me, I got to eat and pay the rent. Phone sex is acting, and if you don't like it, you can step.”

Theresa Randle - Girl 6

“- First A.D.: He says the Minotaur prosthetic is too tight, so he can't act.
- John Chambers: If he could act, he wouldn't be playing the Minotaur.”
Ray Porter - First A.D.
John Goodman - John Chambers

“The equivalent for a normal person would be to go into work each day in your underwear and try and do your job that you normally do. All of a sudden you can't do anything. That's how a comedian feels when he's doing a new bit.”
Jerry Seinfeld - Himself

“- Harry Binelli: Hurry up, before they come back. And, groan, groan, stagger about and don't die too soon! You must take your time. And you mustn't die before 11 o'clock.
- Leo Davis: Don't you worry! I'll give you the best performance you ever saw in a hotel bedroom!
- Gordon Miller: That's the spirit! Good luck, Davis. Drop dead!”
Chico Marx - Harry Binelli
Frank Albertson - Leo Davis
Groucho Marx - Gordon Miller

What? Act? Did anyone care if Marilyn Monroe could act? All they cared was, "Was she in focus?".
George Wendt - Film Producer

“There is no one more full of shit than a cop except for a cop on TV.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Billy

“- Sharpay Evans: You were so loyal. And sweet.
- Tiara Gold: That's called acting. You should try it sometime.”
Ashley Tisdale - Sharpay Evans
Jemma McKenzie-Brown - Tiara Gold

“I'm making this out for one thousand dollars. All you have to do is give me 300 dollars in cash and keep 700 dollars, all for doing nothing more than acting like a total creep.”
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“Those two fellows we created, they were nice, very nice people. They never get anywhere because they are both so dumb, but they don't know they're dumb. One of the reasons why people like us, I guess, is because they feel superior to us.”
Oliver Hardy

“I was a fourteen-year-old boy for thirty years.”
Mickey Rooney

“No comic can be great in films without two things — a great story which gives you a character to play, and a great director.”
Jack Benny

“The best actors do not let the wheels show. This is the hardest kind of acting, and it works only if you look as if you are not acting at all.”
Henry Fonda

“People ask me 'how come you been around so long?' Well, it's through playing the part of Mr. Average Joe American.”
Gary Cooper

“When I saw my first film test I ran from the projection room screaming.”
Bette Davis

“There's nothing so offensive to me as watching an actor with his ego.”
Robert De Niro

“After my first movies, I gave interviews. Then I thought, 'What's so important about where I went to school, and hobbies... What does any of that have to do with acting, with my own head?' Nothing.”
Robert De Niro

“Once I get a hold of a character, get a hold of their essence, I'm just as excited the next time I create it.”
Lily Tomlin

“I was always the guy behind the guy behind the gun.”

Humphrey Bogart

“He's a very, very bad actor, but he absolutely loves doing it.”

David Niven

“I think Spencer always thought that acting was a rather silly way for a man to make a living.”
Katharine Hepburn On Spencer Tracy