Acting Quotes · Page 139

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

— Jonathan Hyde

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

— Katharine Hepburn

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

— Hyuna

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

— Abby Elliott

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

— Stephen Amell

I don't think I am motivated enough to act just for the sake of acting.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.

— Isaac Brock

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

— Rashida Jones

Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was…

— Dorian Missick

Painting is wonderful because its so private. Youre not beholden to a director or a producer. But acting has been really saving…

— James Franco

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting…

— Don Rickles

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I…

— Mark Wahlberg

In Asia, I didn't feel like I was Chloe. I felt like I was acting like someone in Asia. I was acting…

— Chloe Bennet

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I love experimenting and doing new things in life, and if things fall into place, I'm ready to take up acting, too.

— Sandeep Singh

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas…

— Alice Braga

“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth…

— Milan Kundera

The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor,…

— Mindy Kaling

If you're spending a lot of time in the writers' room and then you're also acting, you have your foot in both…

— Tom Arnold

Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting…

— Marlon Brando

When I started acting in earnest at 12 years old, I really embraced it because, in a safe and contained and controlled…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I don't think eliminating the knowing-doing gap depends on the amount of knowledge around. It depends much more on people's attitudes and…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on…

— Vikrant Massey

You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

— Michael B. Jordan

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 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

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

— Josh Hartnett

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

— Joan Allen

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

— Crystal Bowersox

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

— Anonymous

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