We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Tom Wolfe

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
Whoopi Goldberg

Acting is acting.
Brent Spiner

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
Tim Robbins

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Tim Robbins

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
Tim Robbins

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Tim Robbins

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
Victoria Abril

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
Aishwarya Rai

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.
Jerry Hall

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
Angela Carter

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
Monica Bellucci

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
Jim Jarmusch

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
Deborah Bull

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.
Joe Rogan

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
Joe Rogan

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
Bela Lugosi