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I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting. — Robbie Jones

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. — Sophie Marceau

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting. — Rhys Ifans

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

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid. — Michael Welch

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

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience. — Rhys Ifans

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

This feels natural, Kit and I acting on something that was already there. My eyes roll back in my head as he slides inside of me. And then I wake up. — Tarryn Fisher

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

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it. — April Pearson

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

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting! — Penny Marshall

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

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. — KRS-One

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

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career. — Li Bingbing

I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do. — Kay Panabaker

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again. — Ashton Irwin

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in. — Karen Gillan

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 constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that. — Selena Gomez

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music. — Joan Jett

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

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school. — Paul Schneider

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it. — Aaron Tveit

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both. — Tyler Hilton

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

What method acting is for the stage, mezzofiction is for the page. — Fierce Dolan

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting. — Eva Mendes

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. — Euripides

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. — Billy Boyd

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there. — Idris Elba

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

In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling. — Frederick Lenz

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business. — Chris D'Elia

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

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. — Tom Sizemore