Acting Quotes · Page 130

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

— Roger Rees

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

— KRS-One

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

— Joe Manganiello

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

— Kevin Spacey

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

— Anonymous

I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.

— Gaby Hoffmann

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

— Alexandra Chando

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

— Travis Fimmel

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your…

— John Malkovich

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book…

— Tinsel Korey

Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've…

— Matthew Rhys

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start…

— Katrina Kaif

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

— Michael Shurtleff

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

— Iris Murdoch

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and…

— Allison Janney

I am very lucky that I came from a stable home, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with my…

— Ty Burrell

The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop,…

— Shailene Woodley

With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing.…

— John Malkovich

I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the…

— Kurt Fuller

I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become…

— Willow Shields

I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in…

— Lou Doillon

The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk…

— Lucy Hale

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though…

— Susanna Kaysen

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

— Jennifer Capriati

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

— Gene Simmons

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

— Joan Rivers

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

— Kathrine Narducci

I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.

— Nicola Walker

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

— Joan Allen

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

— Josh Hartnett

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

— Anonymous

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

— Crystal Bowersox

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

— John Leguizamo

I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

— Na Hae Ryeong

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

— Aya Cash

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

— Song Joong-ki

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

— Thomas Hanna

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

— Penn Jillette

I've always been interested in acting because I acted before I did singing.

— Jay Sean