"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

Acting, Crime, Danger, Lies

48

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

Exlpore more Acting quotes

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Acting, Writing

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

Will Durant, American Historian

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Acting, Jobs

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

Acting, Day, Film

"Acting is acting."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

Acting,

"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Acting,

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

Jimmy Stewart, American Actor

Acting,

"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

Acting, Artists, Singing, Vitality

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Acting, Actor

"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Acting,

Explore more quotes by Charles Churchill

"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."

Beauty

"The best things carried to excess are wrong."

Moderation

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."

Man

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."

Nation

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."

Appearance

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

Envy

"Genius is independent of situation."

Genius

48

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Acting quotes

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

"Acting is acting."

"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

Explore more quotes by Charles Churchill

"Genius is of no country."

"Patience is sorrow's salve."

"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."

"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."

"The best things carried to excess are wrong."

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

"Genius is independent of situation."