Acting Quotes
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I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.
— Jordi Molla
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
— Hugh Grant
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
— Kate Walsh
Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.
— Saoirse Ronan
Acting was my first love before music.
— Crystal Bowersox
If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
— Whoopi Goldberg
You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
— Charles Duhigg
If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.
— Molly Quinn
I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.
— Sophie B. Hawkins
Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
— Sandra Bullock
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
— Jennifer Hudson
My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.
— Jake M. Johnson
It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.
— Charlotte Church
I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
— Georgie Henley
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
— Holliday Grainger
Making a change in your life is as easy as making a decision and acting on it. That's it.
— Ronda Rousey
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
— Denzel Washington
Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.
— Stella Adler
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
— Tom Wilkinson
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
— George Orwell
Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
— Emmanuelle Chriqui
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
— Parker Stevenson
I am an actress and acting is my passion ... period!
— Christine Lahti
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
— Vincent H. O'Neil
I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
— James Stewart
Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting.
— Dan Brown
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
— David Graeber
Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.
— Juliette Lewis
I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.
— Tim Vine
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
— Meryl Streep
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
— Joan Cusack
I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
— Geraldine Chaplin
To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
— Warren G. Bennis
I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
— Patricia Heaton
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
— Tommy Mottola
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
— Stephen Rea
Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.
— Dominic Monaghan
Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
— Marilyn Monroe
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
— Mia Wasikowska
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
— Adam Beach
I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.
— Kay Panabaker
This acting was very hard work.
— Jack Levine
I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.
— Marina And The Diamonds
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
— Ewan McGregor
Acting is constant exploration.
— Paul Guilfoyle
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
— Ben Whishaw
I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.
— Jennifer Lawrence
My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.
— Kevin Durant
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
— David Morrissey
When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.
— Billy Connolly
I closed my eyes, sucked in breath and felt like a slut.This was mainly because I was acting like one. — Kristen Ashley
I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
— Elvis Presley
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
— Heath Ledger
Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing.
— Tony Oller
I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.
— Art Alexakis
The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
— Ben Mendelsohn
When life gives you lemons ... add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!
— Stuart J. Scesney
This apartment is acting like nothing has changed. Everything has changed. I tell the walls he's gone.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.
— Liev Schreiber
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
— Helen Mirren
Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
— Kim Carnes
It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.
— Janette Rallison
Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.
— Sylvester Stallone
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
— Charisma Carpenter
I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.
— Jeremy Shada
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
— Mary McCormack
He needed to stop acting like we were more than friends or clue me in on what he was up to. "I'm
— Donna Augustine
I'm very serious about acting.
— Victor Garber
