I am glad you have asked me. I should like you to convey when you are acting it that the man you portray has a brother in Shropshire who drinks port. Barth

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
Responding to a young actor's urgent request for advice as to how he should play a minor part in one of Barrie's plays. Attributed.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

-Barrymore,John
Quoted in  Actors about  Acting, Loving, Living, Life (1972).

It is acting inits purest form.You havetoact with youreyes.

-Bonham Carter, Helena
On playing a chimp in Planet of the Apes. In the Observer, 30 Dec.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting than fear. Burke

-Burke, Edmund
  On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt.2, section 2.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; No crime's so great as daring to excel.

-Churchill, Charles
  An Epistle to William Hogarth, l.51^2.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  Of Garrick. Retaliation, l.101^2.

The most important thing in acting is honesty.Once you've learned to fake that, you're in.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Attributed.

We are always acting on what just finished happening. It happened at least1/30th of a second ago. We think we're inthe present, but wearen't.The present we know is onlya movie of the past.

-Kesey, Ken Elton
Quoted in Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool- Aid  Acid Test (1968), ch.11.

Acting isthereforethelowestofthearts,if it beanartatall.

-Moore, George
Impressions and Opinions,'Mummer- Worship'.

Stage-plays†are sinfull, heathenish, lewd, ungodly Spectacles and most pernicious Corruptions, condemned in all ages as intolerable Mischiefes to Churches, to Republickes, to the manners, mindes and soules of men. And that the Profession of Play-poets, of Stage-players; together with the penning, acting and frequenting of Stage-plays are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians.

-Prynne,William
  Histrio Mastix:The Players' Scourge, orActors' Tragedie.