Terry Pratchett Quotes

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

The play's the thing.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.