If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. —Anne Bradstreet More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We're actors - we're the opposite of people. —Tom Stoppard More about this quote Tags: humor opposites acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage. —Tina Fey More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny. —Tina Fey More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. —Sir Ralph Richardson More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew. —Roger Moore More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. —Miguel de Cervantes More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result. —Michael J. Fox More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. —Meryl Streep More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: honesty acting faking it Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email