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Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.
— Tyler Christopher
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
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
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
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 grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
— Kerry Washington
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'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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.
— William Holden
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
— Jostein Gaarder
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
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
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
