Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

Acting is happy agony.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Johnny Depp

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
Aaliyah

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Aaliyah

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Jack Nicholson

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Richard M. Nixon

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
Christopher Walken