Acting Quotes · Page 132

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

— Peter Stormare

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

— Chris Pine

I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it.

— Laurie Simmons

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five.

— Danny Masterson

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

— Jim Broadbent

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

— Lillian Gish

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

— Scarlett Johansson

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I'm serious about acting someday. I've thought about it for a long time. Whether it's TV or film, I'd definitely give it…

— Jason Taylor

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got…

— Campbell Scott

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema…

— Jonathan Demme

I was acting before I had given my life to Christ. But the effect that God has had on my actual career…

— Malachi Kirby

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use…

— Christopher Reeve

People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start…

— Stephen Amell

When I came to Mumbai, I was just 19 years old and did the TV show, 'Remix'. Thereafter, I just fell in…

— Sourabh Raj Jain

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

— Brit Marling

We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because…

— Charlotte Rampling

Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I…

— Ben Mendelsohn

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You…

— Olivia Thirlby

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to…

— Jonah Hill

I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just…

— Michael B. Jordan

Very rarely have I worked with a director where we've been at odds. And by the time you've actually talked to somebody…

— Julianne Moore

Yes it did really. It was very exciting to find that my energy could be directed into something more useful and positive.…

— John Leguizamo

Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable.…

— Jeremy Irvine

“if I act the way I wish I were am I still acting...or becoming?" -Bea”

— Kat Yeh

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

— Stefan Molyneux

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

— Bel Powley

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...

— David Foster Wallace

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

— Philip Glenister

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

— Paul Schneider

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

— Viola Davis

After acting in several Hindi films, I have decided to be a producer.

— Dino Morea

I'll grow old, start acting my age. It'll be a brand new day in a life that you hate.

— Brand New

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

— Liam Cunningham

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

— Anna Paquin

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

— Owen Wilson

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'

— James Caan

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

— Paul Giamatti