Acting Quotes

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

I'll tell you this: you cannot escape the impact of emotion, whether it's in a big theater or a tiny one. If you have it, it inflates you — correction, 'inflates' is not a good word. If you have it, it infects you and the audience. If you don't have it — don't bother; just say the lines as truthfully as you are capable of doing. You can't fake emotion. It immediately exposes the fact that you ain't got it.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.