It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt Cobain

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
Ted Turner

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean

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

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis