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Film Acting Quotes & Sayings

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Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project. — Anupam Kher

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. — Ted Shackelford

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. — Judd Nelson

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making. — Logan Lerman

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out. — Ian McKellen

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. — Miranda Richardson

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun. — Shailene Woodley

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. — Hugh Grant

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television. — Michelle Dockery

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film. — Saffron Burrows

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working. — Daniel Radcliffe

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years. — Keira Knightley

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film. — Brigitte Bardot

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read. — Laura Vandervoort

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting. — Omar Dorsey

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film. — Rila Fukushima

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others. — Kristen Wiig

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre. — Keeley Hawes

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy. — Denzel Washington

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me. — Tatum O'Neal

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were. — Michael Caine

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting! — Emraan Hashmi

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up. — Ruth Wilson

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. — Tommy Wiseau

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa. — Richard McCabe

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it. — Dinah Sheridan

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition. — Sarah Snook

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. — Art Alexakis

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission. — Cecilia Roth

Acting in TV as opposed to films is really difficult. What a film gets two months to do, we get eight days to do. — Michelle Borth

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting. — Olivier Martinez

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished. — Scott Glenn

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film. — Donnie Yen

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting. — John Boyega

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often. — Matt Dillon

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself. — Christina Ricci

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. — Tom Felton

I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing. — Jodelle Ferland

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive. — James Lipton

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well. — Chris Owen

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities. — Denzel Whitaker

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting. — Dominic Monaghan

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist. — Dwight Yoakam

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing. — Josh Hartnett

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really. — Amy Adams

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny. — Sufe Bradshaw

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting. — Miles Teller

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person. — Michael Caine

I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well. — Olivia Culpo

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder. — Adrien Brody

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film. — Heath Ledger

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses. — Michael Caine

Reviews about film acting are very ... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — James Franco

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun. — Steve Zahn

The foundation for film acting is stage acting. — James Lipton

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. — Michael Moriarty

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes. — Robert Brustein

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. — Charles S. Dutton

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater. — Carter Jenkins

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting. — Edward Burns

I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding — Stephanie Perkins

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. — Alfred Molina

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing. — Denzel Washington

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. — Jeremy Davies

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. — Shailene Woodley

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. — Vivien Leigh

All FILM directors are good actors, because you have to understand actors in order to program them. — Henry Johnson Jr

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film. — Terrence J