Acting quotations
Page 3
- Alan Rickman99◆ Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.
- Julie Andrews Edwards99◆ [on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.
- Benedict Cumberbatch99◆ Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
- Katharine Hepburn99◆ There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
- Tom Stoppard99◆ I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.
- Ava Gardner99◆ I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
- Benedict Cumberbatch99◆ I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
- Benedict Cumberbatch99◆ We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.
- Daphne du Maurier99◆ I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
- Benedict Cumberbatch99◆ I have actual acting scars.
- Benedict Cumberbatch99◆ I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.
- Benedict Cumberbatch99◆ I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
- W.S. Gilbert99◆ In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
- Konstantin Stanislavski99◆ What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
- Vincent Price99
Page description:
Acting quotations, classical sentences quotations about acting, quotations for acting words, the best acting quotations collection, motivational quotations on acting.
© Quotes are the property of their respective owners, reproduced here for educational and informational purposes, and is provided at no charge.