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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
That is what courage is: it is acting in the face of fear.
— Amy A. Bartol
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
— Robert Breault
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 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 what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.
— Jessica Pare
