40 Movie Quotes about Acting (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 How to be a TV actor. And here is lesson number the one.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

22 Exit, empty-pocketed, stage right!

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

23 Exit, stage right, or is it stage fright?

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

24 No, no. Be mean. Wave your arms. Make believe you're angry.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

25 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)

26 We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions.

Ed Harris as Christof in The Truman Show

27 I'm going to my trailer, I'm gonna get a gun and I'm gonna shoot myself for being in your movie.

Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat (1995)

28 She's a bit player in motion pictures. Which means that she plays a little bit here and a little bit there.

Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley in Champagne for Caesar

29 Oh, no. This is a motion picture, a play. You mustn't take yourself so seriously.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hercules in Hercules In New York

30 I never was under your spell. I was merely acting.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)