Acting Quotes · Page 102

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

— Charlie Hunnam

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

— Vic Mignogna

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

— Tom Hooper

I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

— Patti Harrison

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

— Stella Adler

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

— Todd Rundgren

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

— Wallace Shawn

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken…

— Steve McQueen

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my…

— Anonymous

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

— Alexander Ludwig

He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is…

— Rush Limbaugh

Getting a Masters in Public Administration was nothing unusual for me. I have always been a person to hold on to my…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much…

— Penelope Wilton

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

— Anna Lappe

“I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Because…

— Tom Hiddleston

I've always been a bit of an outsider... I just pop up, kind of. I have a life. I have children -…

— Ally Walker

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside…

— Sally Hawkins

But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further…

— Iwan Rheon

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself. Acting for kids…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally…

— Mary Astell

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that…

— Dayo Okeniyi

“When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to smile all the time…

— Salman Aziz

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

— Josh O'Connor

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

— Matt Letscher

If you present yourself like trash, don't be expected to be treated like treasure.

— Kourtnee Willams

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

— Melissa Leo

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

— James Garner

I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.

— Allu Arjun

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

— Kristin Davis

I take talking as seriously as I do writing, acting and stand-up. Not everybody is good at talking.

— Robby Hoffman

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

— Tony Randall

Sometimes You have to lose something to realize how silly you been acting.

— Lisa's Voice

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

— Pauline Oliveros

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

— Katey Sagal

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

— Robert Pattinson

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

— Li Bingbing

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I never considered failure.

— Jennifer Lawrence

I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

— Gong Li