Acting Quotes · Page 137

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

— Michael Keaton

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

— Megan Park

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

— Yvonne Strahovski

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

— Catherine Oxenberg

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

— Brenton Thwaites

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

— Simon Sinek

I was participating in acting and writing for other shows and I knew that eventually I wanted a sitcom of my own.

— Quinta Brunson

I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub…

— Vanessa Redgrave

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting,…

— Kathryn McCormick

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene…

— Delta Burke

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to…

— Vikram Bhatt

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until…

— Ben Kingsley

Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in…

— Harold Clurman

It's good to have experience in other ventures and have other goals. Like acting, having businesses, starting from zero and making something…

— Karol G

I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I…

— Vanessa Bell Calloway

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character…

— Graham Patrick Martin

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you…

— Ben Wheatley

I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music…

— Lenny Kravitz

I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like…

— Common

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they…

— Camille Claudel

I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music…

— Jason Graves

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that…

— Daniela Ruah

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

— Roddy McDowall

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

— Tim Robbins

I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.

— Astro

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

— Emmanuelle Beart

Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

— Ben Miller

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I…

— Amanda Burton

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

— Salma Hayek

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

— Ellen Page

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

— Teresa Palmer

I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'

— Kumar Sanu

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

— Dabney Coleman

Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.

— Robert Vaughn

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