Dean Ambrose Quotes

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That's how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don't regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

I play my part in my films with utmost honesty.

I can't act. I can't lie.

Growing up, I wanted to be in WWE because of watching characters like Stephanie McMahon and Paul Heyman. They just are such incredible storytellers, such incredible, compelling characters.

That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.