Acting Is Lying Quotes

#1. Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Michael Douglas

#2. A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

Dave Eggers

#3. Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

Elizabeth Goudge

#4. Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

Alexander Pope

#5. I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.

Bertrand Russell

#6. This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.

Gary L. Blackwood

#7. [the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Laurence Olivier

#8. Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

Ian McKellen

#9. I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Al Pacino

#10. Man has his being in truth
if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying
but of acting against one's conviction.

Novalis

#11. Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

#12. With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.

Johnny Depp

#13. I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.

Mircea Monroe

#14. Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

Angelina Jolie

#15. Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

Dane DeHaan

#16. It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.

Janette Rallison

#17. After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead.

Lisa Edelstein

#18. (Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#19. With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Johnny Depp

#20. Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Sara Shepard

#21. That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

Patricia Clarkson