Acting Quotes · Page 100

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

— Tim Robbins

This is something that's been on my radar for quite some time actually, voice acting.

— Big E

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

— Phoebe Cates

I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

— Jeremy Shada

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

— Tom Sturridge

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

— Margaret Millar

“If you're acting, you're wasting your time. If you're not, you're wasting mine.”

— Mommie Dearest

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

— Theo Rossi

My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our…

— Sonoya Mizuno

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance…

— Jack Kornfield

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has…

— Karen Allen

I love cinema and I love acting, and it's sort of been my love for the longest time now, so I kinda…

— Jacob Elordi

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

— Fernando Pessoa

There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But…

— Jack Nicholson

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then…

— Laura Carmichael

Acting is about passion. You have to be passionate and single-minded about it. It can devour you, you must find ownership.

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and…

— Michael Pena

The biggest compliment? I would say, "You helped me." I think in terms of life, not just with acting. But certainly with…

— Thomas Sadoski

The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been…

— Doris Day

When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of…

— Jillian Rose Reed

There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment…

— Dennis Kimbro

My mom was very worried when I was starting off my career in the film industry. She never told me to not…

— Kalki Koechlin

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that…

— Ian Mckellen

I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted…

— Devon Bostick

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

— Roger Allam

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

— Jimmy Butler

Like they say: The acting is for free. I get paid to wait.

— Leighton Meester

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

— Roger Allam

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

— John Corbett

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

— Nicole Maines

If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

— Mandy Moore

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

— Robert Pattinson

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

— J. B. Smoove

For my money, acting has been over-intellectualized. It's only playing.

— Denis Lawson

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

— Christina Ricci

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

— Dan Levy

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

— Piper Laurie

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

— Jayma Mays

Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.

— James Cosmo

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

— Justin Theroux