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Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star. — Tyler Christopher

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. — Joan Chen

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm too passionate about my work ... Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes ... your soul. — Farrah Fawcett

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart. — Anthony Hopkins

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence. — Chuck Norris

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business. — Bill Gurley

Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. — Various Attributed Sources

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. — Charles De Gaulle

The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." - Helen Mirren — Judith Weston

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre. — Robert Pattinson

I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it. — Lance Bass

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real. — Marvin Hagler

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

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances. — McKayla Maroney

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are. — Seth Godin

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

I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something. — Hannah Ware

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice. — Harry Shearer

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work. — Ayelet Shaked

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. — Natasha Lyonne

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent. — Stella Adler

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera. — Kerry Washington

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque. — Minka Kelly

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo. — Tom Wilkinson

I want to be known for my acting, not for my breasts. — Emilia Clarke

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as. — Meg Ryan

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. — Anthony Hopkins

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself. — Beatrice Wood

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. — Rick Warren

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity. — Sean Berdy

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting. — Jennifer Hudson

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. — River Phoenix

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. — Hill Harper

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country — Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all. — Dakota Fanning

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. — Meryl Streep

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. — Sophocles

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me. — Mary Stuart Masterson

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently. — Mary Doria Russell

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting. — Brian Spellman

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting. — Michael C. Hall

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel. — Pema Chodron

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award. — Shari Sebbens

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening. — Reid Scott

I'm not acting! shouted Cleo. She was in desperate need of more gloss. — Lisi Harrison

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last. — Henry Cavill

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. — Evelyn Underhill

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it. — Lance Henriksen

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way. — Aubrey Plaza

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over. — Hugh Dancy

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. — Laurence Olivier

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting. — Woodrow Wilson

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books. — Aaron Carter

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. — Carlos Castaneda

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. — Margaret Hamilton

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me. — Gene Wilder

is not good for one's morals to see bad acting. Besides, — Oscar Wilde

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports. — Gabriel Basso

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work. — Paul Feig

God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting. — Michael Horton

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews. — Eamonn Walker

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting. — Hayley Mills

I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.' — Kristen Stewart

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. — Lauren Graham

I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it. — Adi Shankar

I say I'm not shy, but ... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged. — Shemar Moore

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. — Ewan McGregor

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. — James Stewart

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? 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

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices. — Morgan Freeman

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. — Wayne W. Dyer

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away. — William Lucking

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting. — James Franco

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable. — Dan Pearce

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it. — William Holden

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all! — Kajol

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others. — Jostein Gaarder

Have a good looking is not worthy if you don't act just like your appearances. — Shim Steward

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much. — Deborah Kerr

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. — Edie Falco

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself. — Lesley Manville

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you. — Owen Wilson

When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part. — Paul Dano

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. — Rowan Atkinson

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard. — Bob Odenkirk

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?' — Danny Boyle

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

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who ... can be divided ... into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not. — W. H. Auden

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing. — Brenton Thwaites

A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting. — Katharine Cornell

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun. — Benedict Cumberbatch