Top 100 Quotes About Acting (2024 Update)
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51. “When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

52. “Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.”

— Richard Branson

53. “The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

54. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

— Tony Robbins

55. “The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”

— John C. Maxwell

56. “Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action.”

— Grant Cardone

57. “Action always beats inaction.”

— T. Harv Eker

58. “Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.”

— Swami Vivekananda

59. “Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

60. “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”

— Tony Robbins

61. “Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”

— Sanford Meisner

62. “The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”

— George Bernard Shaw

63. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”

— Alan Cohen

64. “Acting is not talking, it’s living off the other fellow!!!”

— Sanford Meisner

65. “Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.”

— Konstantin Stanislavski

66. “People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

67. “The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”

— Charlie Chaplin

68. “Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?”

— Steve Jobs

69. “An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.”

— Michael Chekhov

70. “The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.”

— Sanford Meisner

71. “Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.”

— Tom Hiddleston

72. “Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.”

— Deepak Chopra

73. “A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”

— Carlos Castaneda

74. “Do the thing and you will have the power.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

75. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

76. “Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?”

— Nhat Hanh

77. “No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.”

— Dale Carnegie

78. “You think when you don’t want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don’t think!”

— U.G. Krishnamurti

79. “If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.”

— Edward Snowden

80. “Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

— Indira Gandhi

81. “Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.”

— T. Harv Eker

82. “It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”

— Tim Ferriss

83. “Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.”

— Brian Tracy

84. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

— Meister Eckhart

85. “Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.”

— B.C. Forbes

86. “Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”

— Bill Gates

87. “None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success.”

— Nelson Mandela

88. “We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.”

— Seneca the Younger

89. “Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.”

— Erma Bombeck

90. “This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.”

— Ibn Taymiyyah

91. “Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.”

— Susan Cain

92. “While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”

— Dan Millman

93. “By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what’s happening, we begin to access our inner strength.”

— Pema Chödrön

94. “The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.”

— Thomas Merton

95. “The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

96. “It’s not about women acting like man, it’s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful.”

— Zooey Deschanel

97. “Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.”

— Charlie Chaplin

98. “If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.”

— John Maynard Keynes

99. “Acting is not very good for relationships – but very good for when they are over.”

— Hugh Dancy