Acting Quotes · Page 117

We want to see football. If people want to see acting, they go somewhere else, not the stadium.

— Lothar Matthaus

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

— Laurence Fishburne

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

— Sinqua Walls

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

— Adelaide Clemens

For as long as I can remember, my acting crush has been Meryl Streep.

— Constance Zimmer

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

— Tamlyn Tomita

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

— Jason Statham

I think a lot of acting is having the confidence to be open enough to try things and not be afraid of…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played,…

— Kate Winslet

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I…

— Olivia Williams

I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors…

— Zach Braff

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal…

— Bill Pullman

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Personally, I find the acting thing to be a little more difficult than music. It's fun, but I sometimes get nervous around…

— Nick Jonas

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want…

— Valeria Golino

Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A.,…

— Kurt Fuller

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will…

— Sheri S. Tepper

I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would…

— Bethany Joy Galeotti

I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and…

— Jackson Rathbone

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well,…

— Hank Azaria

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there…

— David J. Schwartz

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to…

— Steven R. McQueen

I would say I was not working in the real sense in 'Paiyaa.' After doing very heavy scenes in my first two…

— Karthi

There are a lot of projects I want to do with producing and acting outside of wrestling.

— Big Show

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

— Kristy Swanson

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

— Benjamin Stockham

Before I turned my attention to acting and writing I was a model.

— Keeley Hazell

A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.

— Katharine Cornell

“Maybe that’s why you love acting so much. Maybe you’re tired of being yourself.”

— J.M. Darhower

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

— William Shakespeare

I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

— Liam Cunningham

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

— Peter Stormare

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

— Keke Palmer

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

— Robert Downey, Jr

Acting is what I want to do and as long as I believe in myself, I know that I will reach where…

— Neha Sharma

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

— Elvis Presley

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

— Jack Welch

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

— Rachel Weisz

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

— Cole Sprouse