Acting Quotes · Page 134

I believe acting also has a retirement phase. Unfortunately, no one in the industry is ready to accept that.

— Salim Kumar

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

— Adam Goldberg

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

— Deborah Kerr

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

— Eva Herzigova

Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.

— Vijay Antony

I give so much of myself to acting that if a part of me feels like it's not worth it, I'm gonna…

— Melissa Barrera

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

— Jason Statham

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

— Gary Kemp

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

— Rosa Parks

It is so cool having complete control over something because, with acting, it's words written by other people that you perform; you…

— Peyton List

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a…

— Callan McAuliffe

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come…

— Julie Walters

It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim, Acting like the whole entire world is out to…

— Lee Majors

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

— Michael Sheen

When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments…

— Glenn Reynolds

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he…

— Tippi Hedren

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy.…

— Chila Woychik

“What's the best part of acting? It's the indescribable feeling of being someone you are and someone your not, all at the…

— Chris Coppernoll

I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in…

— Linda Hunt

Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and…

— Greta Gerwig

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled…

— George Henry Lewes

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.

— Brenton Thwaites

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

— Eli Wallach

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

— Blythe Danner

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

— Jill Scott

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

— Hugh Laurie

By the time I got someone to take my head shot, I'd been acting for nine years!

— James Wolk

I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started.

— Carel Struycken

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

— Charlton Heston

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

— Shane West

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

— George Burns

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

— Mitch Albom

I went into acting because I wanted to be seen being someone else, not me!

— Anita Dobson

I love acting, so doing roles as a man or a woman would be something I'd love to do in the future.

— Alaska

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

— George Eliot

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

— Peter Ustinov