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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. — Liev Schreiber

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about. — Catherine Hicks

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters. — Joanne Whalley

Acting is what happens on the way. — Mira Sorvino

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor. — Marian Seldes

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new? — Michael Shurtleff

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do. — Helena Bonham Carter

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child. — Kristanna Loken

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. — John Cassavetes

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting. — Dan Castellaneta

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe. — Ruby Rose

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work. — Ashton Kutcher

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do. — Hannibal Buress

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny. — David Hyde Pierce

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human. — Nick Enright

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do? — Julia Garner

That is what courage is: it is acting in the face of fear. — Amy A. Bartol

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself. — Helen McCrory

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes. — Dermot Mulroney

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. — Keith Hernandez

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about. — Noomi Rapace

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before. — Michael Shurtleff

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type. — Alexander Ludwig

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. — Glenn Close

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is. — Sydney Pollack

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting. — Andy Serkis

Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself. — Patricia Cornwell

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing. — Ian McKellen

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

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium. — James Denton

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is. — Rebecca Miller

The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it. — Sam Hawksmoor

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is. — David Duchovny

What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me. — Peter Capaldi

As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. — Seneca.

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying. — Tina Fey

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one. — Brit Marling

The art of acting is to be other than what you are. — Whoopi Goldberg

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up. — Lili Taylor

What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job. — Samantha Morton

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. — Peter O'Toole

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

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist. — Kevin McKidd

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear. — Anna Deavere Smith

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star. — Martin Freeman

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have. — Jacqueline Bisset

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. — Rosamund Pike

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head. — Aya Cash

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ... not waiting to deliver your lines. — Michael Caine

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life. — Vincent Price

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about. — Jerry Hall

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing. — Shelley Winters

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. — Michael Shurtleff

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom. — Wayne Dyer

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage. — Daniel Radcliffe

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it. — James Nesbitt

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing. — Miranda Lambert

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing. — Chris Jericho

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do. — Stephen Colletti

That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do. — Cillian Murphy

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling. — Simon Callow

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive. — Martin Sheen

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

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer! — Natalie Portman

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else. — Saoirse Ronan

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring. — Christopher Lambert

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away. — Kelli O'Hara

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that. — Elisabeth Rohm

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need. — Stella Adler

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. — Matt Damon

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 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

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

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

If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none. — Robert Gossett

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job. — Christian Bale

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting. — Asghar Farhadi

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

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free. — Edward G. Robinson

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.' — CJ Adams

What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up. — Kate Winslet

That's what acting is - it's about ... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. — Kerry Washington

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go. — Derek Magyar

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. — Robert Breault

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing." — Tom Ellis

I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised. — David Hemmings

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day. — Allegra Versace

What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy. — Tyler James Williams

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' — Daniel Breaker

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do. — Emilia Clarke

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that. — Andy Serkis

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do. — Jessica Pare

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day. — Danny McBride

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother. — Karisma Kapoor