The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Thomas Jefferson

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.

Washington Irving

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

George Eliot