top of page

"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."

Robert Quillen, American Journalist

Acting, Being, Emotion

46

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."

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

"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

"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

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

Jimmy Stewart, American Actor

"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

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

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Explore more quotes by Robert Quillen

"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."

"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."

"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides."

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."

bottom of page