I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
Sophocles

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Orlando Bloom

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
Julie Christie

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.
Julie Christie

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

I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Meryl Streep

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

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
Christopher Walken

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Meryl Streep

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs

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