Acting Quotes · Page 101

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

— Ester Dean

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Instantly when I'm acting, I kick into Frank Agnew face.

— Mark Strong

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

— Taryn Manning

Acting is something that I've always wanted to do and been interested in.

— Josephine Langford

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

— Derek Magyar

When I started acting I was in North Carolina. There are a lot of conservatives around there.

— Nick Searcy

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I…

— Claudia Lee

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I'm addicted to New York, and I like L.A., as I have kids there. Sometimes I think New Mexico is the one…

— Mark Margolis

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all…

— Werner Herzog

There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand…

— Sarah Sutton

My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them.…

— Jane Krakowski

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to…

— Joan Rivers

I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision.

— Anupriya Goenka

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content…

— Val Kilmer

I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best…

— Patrick Wilson

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common…

— Jessica Valenti

I'm really focused and committed to teaching now. Maybe when I'm about 30, which is in 10 years, I would like to…

— Rachel Hurd-Wood

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across…

— Bernard Sahlins

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I…

— John Robinson

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really…

— Evan Rachel Wood

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of…

— Viola Spolin

“Life made me an actor from birth. The world, darling, is not my stage but my audience.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

— Ritika Singh

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

— Anonymous

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not

— Tea Leoni

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 like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

— Stella Maeve

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

— Mahesh Babu

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

— Brittany Murphy

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

— Tom Felton

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

— James Franco

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

— Charles Durning

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

— Joanne Woodward

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum