40 Movie Quotes about Acting (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about acting, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What? That's not in the play!

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 What you doing? This supposed to be a children's show. This remind me of Chinese snuff film I once co-star in.

Eddie Murphy as Hangten Wong in Norbit

3 All right, girls. Lovely talking with you. Anytime you'd like some tips on acting, I'd be glad to chat with you. All right, off you go then.

Tom Hanks as Sheriff Woody in Toy Story 2

4 Why do they have to spoil Christmas by making us be in plays? -We're on, sir. Let's show them how.

Phillip Lucier as Peppermint Patty; Marcie From Charlie Brown in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

5 He does these impersonations. You'd think it was the real people.

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas

6 In 4th grade, I stole my uncle's toupee and I glued it on my face when I played Moses in my Hebrew school play.

Sean Astin as Michael "Mikey" Walsh in The Goonies

7 What can I say? The camera loves me.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

8 Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.

Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder (2008)

9 My acting? My acting? My acting just got a thousand people killed. Jesus, I've done it again.

Trey Parker as Gary Johnston in Team America: World Police

10 We've all done action films. If anyone tries to get in our way, we'll show them just how tough us actors really are.

Alec Baldwin From Team America in Team America: World Police