Acting Quotes · Page 135

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

— Bette Davis

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

— Charlie Heaton

I didn't go into acting because I wanted to be a role model.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“More waiting...actors are paid to wait. We do the acting for free.”

— Jason Chan

If a show comes and the content is great, I would never say no to acting on TV.

— Nora Fatehi

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

— Jessica Lange

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

— Brigitte Bardot

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

— Dominic Cooper

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out…

— Scott Caan

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I…

— Eva Mendes

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I…

— Rowan Atkinson

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted…

— Jared Gilman

My father, a musician who worked with All India Radio, is no more. My mother had a government job at BSNL and…

— Sayani Gupta

Mum has discreet spontaneity - she has an ease in front of the camera, which comes naturally - whereas dad is a…

— Shruti Haasan

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But…

— Michael Ealy

I really had the best time on 'Mad Men.' It was a wonderful place for me, because I never went to an…

— Kiernan Shipka

A lot of people think that comedic acting is a lot harder than dramatic acting, but for me it just feels natural.…

— Jillian Rose Reed

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because…

— Jim Parrack

My mum was an actor until she started having children. I was the first child, so in a way I was the…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there…

— Mila Kunis

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in…

— Rich Sommer

I'd been acting and doing stand-up in New York about eight years, getting rejected, and I finally got the opportunity to do…

— Jim Gaffigan

I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created…

— Brian J. White

My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not…

— Clayton Snyder

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot…

— Alex Pettyfer

A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.

— Ross Lynch

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

— Roger Allam

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in…

— Rila Fukushima

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

— Erika Eleniak

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

— Lance Reddick

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

— Michael Pena

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

— Diane Keaton

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

— Queen Latifah

I'm doing more acting, but I'm also focusing on strongman.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I am able to do social service only because of the name I gained from acting.

— Suresh Gopi

“The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the expression of it.”

— Honoré de Balzac

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

— Yara

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

— Bill Gurley

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

— Alia Shawkat