Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about acting

55 quotes from 35 people

Most readBy personPage 4 of 4

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by PuckIn context
- Sleep
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- Life & Death
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), EpilogueIn context
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
It’s true I don’t tolerate fools but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith1934–2024“You have to laugh” (2004)
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
James Spaderborn 1960Playboy (May 2005)
- Love
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907), Preface
- Fame
We’re actors⁠—we’re the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 63
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)In context
I’ll always perform, because show business is in my blood. Or maybe it’s in my feet. Wherever it is, I don’t think I’ll ever stop.
Robin Williams1951–2014Playboy, October 1982