Acting Quotes · Page 108

I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.

— Shiri Appleby

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

— Marlon Brando

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

— Bram Stoker

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

— Mia Wasikowska

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

— Parker Posey

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

— Veronica Roth

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was…

— Gemma Arterton

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

— Terrence Howard

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting…

— Michel de Montaigne

All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race…

— Pete Seeger

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman…

— Mamie Van Doren

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to…

— Dervla Kirwan

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of…

— Justin Chon

For dance, we had teachers who would micromanage every bit of our process. And with acting, I really had to learn how…

— Monica Barbaro

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of…

— Eve Hewson

You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The…

— Robert Patrick

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope...…

— Hal Sparks

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I…

— Will Ferrell

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to…

— Mike Nichols

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with…

— Molly Ringwald

My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really…

— Ana Mulvoy-Ten

For me personally, it doesn't matter if I'm in a short film, a commercial, a digital series, a TV show, or a…

— Milo Ventimiglia

In 'Sugar' I'll be singing in every episode and I'll be acting and doing comedy. It's ideal for me if it works.

— Barbi Benton

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

— Victoria Beckham

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

— Joseph Murphy

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

— Megan Gallagher

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

— Christian Bale

It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.

— Alan Tudyk

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

— Jack Paar

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

— Joseph Mazzello

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

— Elize du Toit

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, 'I could do that.'

— GloZell

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

— Mohanlal

Truly successful people don't rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

— Amy Morin

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

— Eva Mendes

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

— Anson Mount