Acting quotes

Experience the captivating world of Acting through these inspiring quotes. Discover the magic of stage and screen with wisdom from legendary actors. Unleash your inner performer and let these words ignite your passion for the art of Acting.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

- Rowan Atkinson

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

- Rowan Atkinson

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. It all points to the promotion of the idea that there should be a right not to be offended. But in my view the right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended. The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

- Rowan Atkinson

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

- Rowan Atkinson

I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying.

- Rowan Atkinson

As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

- Rowan Atkinson

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

- Kelly Hu

There's so much crap talked about acting.

- Ben Kingsley

I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

- Victor Garber

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

- Jack Nicholson

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

- David Morse

Acting is constant exploration.

- Paul Guilfoyle

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

- Jim Garrison

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

- Tara Lipinski

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

- Ben Kingsley

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

- Eli Wallach

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

- Olivier Martinez

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

- Megan Gallagher

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

- James Lipton

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

- Corbin Bernsen