Acting Quotes · Page 11

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

— Philip Massinger

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

— Genevieve Bujold

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

— Shilpa Shinde

“Sex sells, but gay sex sells better.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

For me really good acting is about subtext.

— Clive Owen

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

— Ted Shackelford

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

— Chris Carmack

I think acting is getting better and better.

— William H. Macy

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act…

— Emma Bunton

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

— Charles Spurgeon

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

— Gary Oldman

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

— Jason Statham

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

— Mandy Moore

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

— Jake M. Johnson

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my…

— Lena Horne

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

— Emily Osment

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves…

— Tony Hale

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

— Alexander Ludwig

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

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

— Anupriya Goenka

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

— Anonymous

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

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as…

— Zoe Bell

I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a…

— Eva Longoria

I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a…

— Nico Santos

I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to…

— Sterling K. Brown

Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker -…

— Tom Everett Scott

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only…

— Ian Mckellen

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read…

— Toby Jones

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete…

— Sonoya Mizuno

If I'm not acting, I'm writing.

— Brett Goldstein

I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.

— Anushka Sharma

Acting is a life of rejection.

— Lauren Bacall

I never got any advice in acting.

— Fred Willard

Acting was something I had to do.

— Nancy Marchand

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

— Natalie Portman

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

— Milan Kundera

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

— Tommy Lee Jones