A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

— Enid Blyton

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you, and it's not letting you go.

— Bryant McGill

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

— Paul Newman

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

— Laurence Olivier

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

— Kate Reid

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.

— Marian Deegan

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

— Ronald Jeans

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

— Anne Rice

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

— Vincent H. O'Neil

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

— William Hazlitt