Acting Quotes · Page 106

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

— Krysten Ritter

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

— Antony Sher

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

— James Denton

I will become a more mature actor and it's one of my dreams to teach acting as well.

— Joo Won

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

— Jennifer Lawrence

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

— Aziz Ansari

“Our life was an inept play with some disproportionately good acting in it.”

— William Gerhardie

I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting.

— Jake Paul

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

— Shari Sebbens

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively…

— Evangeline Lilly

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always…

— Luke Evans

“You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it…

— Bruce Robinson

Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started…

— Dan Amboyer

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time…

— Freddie Highmore

As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone…

— Mahesh Babu

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

— Helen Mirren

The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we…

— Jimmy Carter

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day,…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you're so sure this wasn't my…

— Cassandra Clare

My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's…

— Sutton Foster

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Whether you're acting or you're writing, your skin is just basically ripped off and you're putting yourself out there. At least the…

— Tama Janowitz

I had a talk with my older son a couple of days ago. I explained to him that I went to a…

— Sofia Helin

My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at…

— Vanessa Morgan

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

— Julie London

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

— Helen McCrory

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

— Kurt Elling

Getting into acting was a challenge for me as I belonged to a political family.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!

— Gwendoline Christie

I don't want to compromise on my singing or drop down its level to start acting.

— Guru Randhawa

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

— Federico Fellini

It really was a true test to try to act for 14-hour days when people don't think that you're acting.

— Desi Lydic

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

— Roger Ebert

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

— Lea Thompson

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

— Greg Wise

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

— Christina Ricci

Cinema has given me everything in life, and I will continue acting till the end.

— Mohanlal

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

— Al Pacino

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball