Acting in secret quotes:

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  • The big secret in acting is listening to people. -- Eli Wallach
  • This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing. -- Aaron Stanford
  • It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living. -- Rosalind Russell
  • It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately. -- Mackenzie Davis
  • A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do. -- Sufe Bradshaw
  • There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • The big secret in acting is listening to people -- Eli Wallach
  • Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up. -- Andrea Navedo
  • That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. -- Melissa Leo
  • That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting. -- Charles Durning
  • I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'. -- Fred MacMurray
  • I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination. -- Steven Spielberg
  • I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that. -- Simon Callow
  • With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another. -- Ronald Kessler
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