It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
Randy Harrison

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Vivien Leigh

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien Leigh

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Brigitte Bardot

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Brigitte Bardot

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Anna Freud

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
John Cleese

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
Katie Price

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
Charlie Sheen

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
William Shatner

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
James Caan

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
Stephen Sondheim

Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau