Acting Magazine Quotes Index
“Auditioning sucks hippo d**k.” (William H. Macy)
“Be in the moment.” (Robert DeNiro)
“Education is so essential” (Jake Gyllenhaal)
“I jumped over fears, went through emotional glass doors” (Kim Basinger)
“If I waited for Hollywood, I would still be playing mama roles” (Viola Davis)
“If that is acting, I don’t want to do it.” (Stella Adler)
“If you want to be an actor…that has nothing to do with Hollywood.” (William H. Macy)
“If you want to play strong, don’t blink. If you want to play weak, blink.”
“It’s not about losing yourself in the role. It’s about finding yourself in the role.” (Uta Hagen)
“Just don’t give up, okay” (Molly Shannon)
“That’s what it takes when you’re a struggling actor…You will be poor” (Jenna Fischer)
“The 90% he isn’t willing to share is what I do for a living” (Martin Landau)
“This industry eats women up in their 20’s and spits them out in their 30’s…”
“You can write your own things and act in your own stuff” (Emma Stone)
“You have to keep at it!” (Kate Winslet)
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10 Inspirational Quotes from Famous Actors
10 Notable Michael B. Jordan Quotes
10 Notable Quotes by Charlize Theron
10 Notable Quotes by Ryan Gosling
11 Inspirational Quotes by Meryl Streep
12 Inspirational Quotes by Morgan Freeman
14 Inspirational Quotes by Stella Alder
15 Brilliant Quotes by Konstantin Stanislavski
15 Inspirational Quotes by Robert De Niro
15 Inspirational Quotes by Sanford Meisner
20 Inspirational Acting Quotes by Famous Actors
23 Inspirational Quotes by Famous Actors
25 Inspirational Quotes by Denzel Washington
25 Inspirational Quotes by Will Smith
3 Hidden Advantages of Self-taping
5 Basic Facts about Lee Strasberg
5 Basic Facts About Method Acting
5 Basic Facts About Robert De Niro
5 Essential Budgeting Tips for Actors
7 Basic Facts About Konstantin Stanislavski
7 Basic Facts About Stella Adler
7 Good Reasons to Get New Headshots
Aaron Eckhart | “The goal of acting is to make it personal.”
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Alan Cumming: “Overthinking is the biggest crime in acting.”
Andrew Garfield: ‘Treat Every Character Like a Real Person’
Ann Dowd: “Celebrate the small victories.”
Bill Duke: “Acting is not pretending. Acting is becoming”
Bill Duke: “This is a business of rejection.”
Bill Duke: “Don’t wait for Hollywood to discover you. Discover yourself!”
Bill Nighy: “I still don’t have a process”
Bryan Cranston: “I knew I wanted to become an actor. I’m not going to have a fallback plan.”
Bryan Cranston: Don’t Audition to Get the Job
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Casting Directors Discuss How They Select Talent
Christian Bale: “Don’t be a one-trick pony”
Clifton Powell: “If this is your passion, don’t quit!”
Colin Firth: “Your character will want to resist grief.”
Constance Wu: “You have to detach yourself from the result.”
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Dacre Montgomery: ‘Make bold character choices’
Daniel Day-Lewis: “I work when I feel a compelling need to do that work.”
Daniel Kaluuya: “I ask the script, ‘What do you want me to do?’”
David Carradine: “There are no failures in Hollywood, there are only people who gave up too soon.”
Dennis Haysbert: “I think the word ‘acting’ is a bad word for what we do.”
Denzel Washington: “If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”
Denzel Washington: “You only live once. So do what you feel passionate about.”
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Don Cheadle: “Do you want to be an actor or do you want to be a star or a celebrity?”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson : ‘Make Hollywood conform to you!’
Ed Harris: “Acting is a lifelong situation.”
Edie Falco: “Just make sure you’re always working on something. Representation or not.”
Emma Thompson: “Never let yourself be defined by how you look.”
Giancarlo Esposito: “When I act, I get a better sense of who I am”
Harrison Ford’s Advice to Young Actors
How 5 Famous Actors Build Their Character’s Backstory
How Carrie Fisher Got Into Acting
How Did Ice Cube Get Into Acting
How did Timothée Chalamet prepare for A Complete Unknown?
How did Ving Rhames get his start in acting?
How Much Does the Allstate Commercial Guy Make? (A Full Breakdown)
How Samuel L. Jackson Prepares His Characters
How Tom Cruise Got into Acting
Jake Gyllenhaal: “Education is so essential!”
Jared Leto: “When I take on a role, I’m obsessed. I want to know everything.”
Jeff Bridges: | “A large part of acting is just pretending”
Jeff Daniels’ Advice to Actors
Jessica Chastain: “I feel like I’m a detective, as an actor.”
Joe Manganiello: “You Can’t Rely on Anyone to Hand You Anything”
Jon Bernthal on Rejection: “You’ve got to remind yourself how lucky you are to be doing this.”
Katharine Hepburn: “You don’t have to act. Let the camera do the work.”
Konstantin Stanislavski: “Do not run for the sake of running”
Konstantin Stanislavski: “Live the Part”
Konstantin Stanislavski: “Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
Konstantin Stanislavski: “There are no small parts, only small actors”
Konstantin Stanislavski: “When you play an evil man, look to see where he is good.”
Lee Strasberg: “The actor must convince himself of the rightness of what he is doing”
Liam Neeson: “The name of the game is rejection.”
Mandy Patinkin: “Don’t become an actor, unless you HAVE to.”
Mark Hamill: “Tenacity is almost more important than talent”
Marlon Brando – “To grasp the full acceptance”.
Martin Landau: “Acting is NOT showing”
Matthew McConaughey: “I love entrances and exits”
Memory vs. Imagination: Which Approach Works Best?
Michael B. Jordan: “After all my auditions, I started throwing my sides away.”
Michael Caine: “A film actor must be able to dream another person’s dreams.”
Michael Caine: “Listening is really what acting is all about”
Michael Caine: “Real people struggle NOT to show their feelings”
Michael Jai White: “This business does not support talent. It supports heat.”
Mikhail Shchepkin: “You should always act truthfully”
Morgan Freeman: | ‘Stillness is the hardest thing for actors to do.’
Morgan Freeman’s Acting Philosophy
Morgan Freeman’s Advice to Actors
Natalie Martinez: “Just keep working hard, because the struggle never stops.”
Nicolas Cage’s Best Acting Advice
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Priyanka Chopra: “I walked into every room as a new actor, and I demanded opportunities.”
Quote of the day: “Acting is reacting” (Stella Adler)
Quote of the day: “The problem is not that acting is hard….” (David Carradine)
Quote of the day: “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular” (Uta Hagen)
Quote of the day: “You can’t be boring…” (Stella Adler)
Quote of the Day: Dennis Haysbert
Quote of the day: Sanford Meisner
Ray Liotta’s Timeless Advice for Up-and-Coming Actors
Ryan Gosling Describes the Impossible Gauntlet That Every Actor Must Survive
Sanford Meisner: “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”
Sanford Meisner: “To be an interesting actor, you must be authentic.”
Sean Kanan: “I think it’s about finding your happiness during the times when you’re not working.”
Sonequa Martin-Green: “Whatever your flaws are, as a person, they will be reflected in your acting.”
Sophia Loren: “Despite all doubts, you’ve got to believe. Always. Always. Always.”
Stella Adler, On the Importance of Confidence
Susan Saint James: ‘No amount of failure can dissuade a determined actor’
The Latino Actor: An Uphill Battle for Representation and Inclusion
The Power of Positive Thinking
The Push Strategy vs. The Pull Strategy
There is Power in Your Eyelids
Uta Hagen, on her definition of bad acting
Uta Hagen: “It’s not about losing yourself in the role”
Viola Davis: | ‘The most powerful question an actor can ask themselves is, Why?’
Viola Davis: “I write a bio of the character.”
Viola Davis: “Pay Me What I’m Worth”
What Actor Turned Down the Most Money?
What Are Stanislavski’s Core Principles of Acting?
What Does Leonardo DiCaprio Say About Acting?
What Does Meryl Streep Say About Acting?
What does Nicole Kidman say about acting
What is the Pick-an-Eye Technique?
What was Stanislavski’s most famous quote?
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Who is the Greatest Character Actor of All Time?
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Will Smith: “Baring yourself is what makes you look strong on camera.”
Will Smith: What’s the point of being realistic?”
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