Acting Quotes · Page 112

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

— Lee Remick

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

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

I spent the most impressionable years of my life with my grandparents, and they meant a lot to me, which is why…

— Mithila Palkar

I spent so many years acting as my own booking agent and manager, just to get out there and play shows. You…

— Carly Pearce

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the…

— Teddy Sears

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

— Langdon Winner

I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and…

— Nick Jonas

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance…

— Bar Paly

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You…

— Shia LaBeouf

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like…

— Rachel Held Evans

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow…

— Henry Rollins

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's…

— Hugh Jackman

There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were…

— Felix Adler

Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality…

— William Powell

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to…

— Baron Vaughn

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only…

— Plato

Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,…

— Meryl Streep

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be…

— Michael Shurtleff

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

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

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