What is acting?

Quotes on what is acting?

Great actors' quotes can teach us...

• Humphrey Bogart:
  Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
• Sir Charles Chaplin:
  Timing! My mother gave me that. I was born with it. I don't think you can teach a person to act.
  [Radio Times, March 1979]
• Glenda Jackson: You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.
  [People, March 1985]
• Vanessa Redgrave: I give myself to my parts as a lover. It's the only way.
  [Time, 17 March 1967]
• Robert De Niro: One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.
• Lawrence Barrett, 19th Century American Actor: Acting is... forever carving a statue of snow.
• Robert Redford: A lot of what acting is paying attention.
• Jeff Goldblum: Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
• Glenda Jackson: Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.