1. Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we’re acting. Most people do it all day long.-Marlon Brando
2. Acting is a marvelous profession … If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don’t have to think too much about your own character and motivations.-Dean Koontz
3. Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy-Clive Swift
4. Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.-Rodney Dangerfield
5. Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.-Alicia Witt
6. Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.-George Burns
7. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity.-Marlon Brando
8. Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.-Katharine Hepburn
9. Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.-Annette Bening
10. Film acting is one of the only industries where you’re criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it’s considered a quality and something to behold.-Nicolas Cage
11. Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.-Paul Newman
12. Great acting is not easy; anyone who says it is is either shallow or a charlatan. And one of the hardest things about acting is admitting that it is hard-Robert Cohen
13. Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.-John Gielgud
14. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.-Kate Reid
15. Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.-Larry Moss
16. Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.-Washington Irving
17. Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.-George Eliot
18. Acting doesn’t bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.-Marguerite Duras
19. Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.-Glenda Jackson
20. I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.-Nancy Reagan
21. Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.-Meryl Streep
22. As always, with acting, you can’t be too self-conscious. You shouldn’t care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they’re not caring about you, they’re caring about the character.-Freddie Highmore
23. The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.-Ralph Richardson
24. People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.-John Stossel
25. Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.-River Phoenix
26. Acting is happy agony.-Jean-Paul Sartre
27. Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.-Ellen Barkin
28. I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.-Charlotte Whitton