Acting Quotes · Page 103

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

— Edie McClurg

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

— Omar Suleiman

Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.

— Allison Holker

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

— Macaulay Culkin

My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

— Leland Orser

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of…

— Aya Cash

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

— Nelson Mandela

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

— Lee Remick

“Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else.…

— Lauren Graham

I always wanted to act. My brother and I would hang out all the time, and a lot of our entertainment came…

— Katy O'Brian

Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in…

— Arfi Lamba

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the…

— Samantha Bond

A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and…

— Joel Kinnaman

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally…

— Cody Horn

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident…

— Shemar Moore

I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.

— Atul Kulkarni

I've had a love/hate relationship with performing. I was an attention seeker as a kid, doing all this stupid stuff to get…

— Tove Lo

I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same…

— William Powell

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame,…

— Andy Serkis

Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be…

— Maika Monroe

That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that…

— Nat Hentoff

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses…

— Boyd K. Packer

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they…

— Kenny Wormald

Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have…

— Michael Parenti

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

— Paulo Coelho

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

— Diana Silvers

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

— Anonymous

Acting is a way of hiding, but hiding in another skin as a male person was exhausting.

— Rebecca Root

I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.

— Enrico Colantoni

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

— David Walton

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

— Kim Coates

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

— Christopher Gorham

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

— Big Sean

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

— Sophocles

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

— Ted Cassidy

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

— Ursula Andress

The whole aspect of recreating yourself, and acting in itself, is really fun to me.

— Evan Mock

The first movie I ever did was the first acting I ever did.

— Ken Wahl

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

— Melissa Joan Hart

“You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly.”

— Mikhail Shchepkin