Explore 'Acting'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

I’ve loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while

Jeri Ryan

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Meryl Streep

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

Scott Speedman

Nobody “becomes” a character. You can’t act unless you are who you are.

Marlon Brando

A lot of people didn’t realize that I acted before I did anything else.

Maria Menounos

I didn’t need the elf outfit to play an elf; I could just play an elf.

Bob Newhart

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Nicolas Cage

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

Irene Dunne

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

Robert Englund

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