Acting is happy agony.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Sir Alec Guiness
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Robert Half
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.Acting and ActorsQuotations by William Hazlitt
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.Acting and ActorsQuotations by William Hazlitt
Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Katharine Hepburn
It’s a business you go into because you’re an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Katharine Hepburn
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Katharine Hepburn
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Alfred Hitchcock
You reach a point where you say you’re not going to do juveniles any longer.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Ron Howard
Actors often behave like children, and so we’re taken for children. I want to be grown up.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Jeremy Irons
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Elton John
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Alva Johnson
I don’t do T & A very well because I haven’t got much of either.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Tea Leoni
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Marcel Marceau
Actors die so loud.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Henry Miller
I’m not an actress who can create a character. I play me.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Mary Tyler Moore
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Roger Moore
Some people are addicts. If they don’t act, they don’t exist.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Jeanne Moreau
I have to act to live.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Sir Lawrence Olivier
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful — my personal life suffers.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Al Pacino
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Dorothy Parker
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Max Eastman
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by T. S. Eliot
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by T. S. Eliot
Every artist writes his own autobiography.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Havelock Ellis
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true poem is the poet’s mind.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
New arts destroy the old.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the path of the creator to his work.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Carrie Fisher
In art as in love, instinct is enough.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Anatole France
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Northrop Frye
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Paul Gauguin
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Andre Gide
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Eric Gill