Acting Quotes · Page 123

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

— Asha Bhosle

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

— Gary Sinise

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Saba Qamar

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on…

— Van Heflin

I don't know what I'm like. I'm better acting someone further away from myself.

— Helen Baxendale

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

— Maxine Peake

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

— Shailene Woodley

I have an acting coach, a dialect coach, and just a great team around me.

— Ricky Whittle

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out…

— Matthew Rhys

When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

My acting teacher always told us the script should be crumpled up and covered in coffee stains and peanut butter smudges -…

— Karl Glusman

You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But…

— Sheridan Smith

I'm cast for my acting, which is fortunate because when you're one of the pretty young things it can be difficult.

— Geraldine James

I wound up getting a lot of other opportunities in the nineties, and then sort of as quickly as it started, it…

— Janeane Garofalo

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film…

— Jeremy Davies

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision.…

— Lenny Kravitz

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes…

— Aubrey Plaza

In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an…

— Loudon Wainwright III

The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on…

— Joe Mantegna

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting…

— David A. R. White

Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows…

— Nandita Das

The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always…

— Alex Borstein

After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for…

— Lisa Edelstein

With acting, the stark reality for women is that it's nearly impossible to get older in an elegant fashion as an actress.…

— Rashida Jones

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

— James Gandolfini

The key to acting well is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.

— Kano

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

— Nick Murray

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

— Tommy Chong

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

— Salman Rushdie

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

— Susan Jeffers

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

— Anonymous

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

— Debby Ryan

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

— Charlie Korsmo

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

— Jane Badler

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

— Liv Ullmann

I never felt like I completely, 100% understood something so well as acting.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

— William Shatner

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

— Bill Skarsgard

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

— Alan Arkin

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch