Acting Quotes · Page 143

I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.

— Anthony Gonzalez

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

— Masi Oka

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

— Kirk Douglas

I enjoy acting and just love to do my roles - big or small.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

— Michael Sheen

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

— Christine Lahti

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

— Fred Thompson

Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting,…

— Ellen Burstyn

My brother, who's my acting coach, he can be like, "That sucked, Chloe. You need to pick that up. You're not thinking…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before…

— David Simon

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class…

— Chaley Rose

Even when I was doing well in acting, my dad would say, 'You can still go back to dental school.' But since…

— Michael Steger

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar...…

— Alan Dershowitz

After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I…

— Laurence Fishburne

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

— Bob Odenkirk

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that…

— Ralph Fiennes

When I started acting, doing theater stuff at a young age, I was always the comic relief-type roles, so I knew I…

— Kenan Thompson

Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself…

— Marian Seldes

It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on…

— Robert Owen

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get…

— Michael Shurtleff

It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that…

— Yvonne Strahovski

I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I…

— Ray Stevenson

I am very sure that I won't be acting till my last breath, but I will do something graceful that suits me.

— Rituparna Sengupta

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

— Ed Asner

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

— Paresh Rawal

If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

— Haley Bennett

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

— Judd Nelson

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

— Carrie Fisher

I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible.

— Greta Gerwig

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

— Natalie Wood

I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives.

— Christine Blasey Ford

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

— Penelope Cruz

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

— Brian Tracy

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

— Amanda Seyfried

It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

— Keanu Reeves

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

— Hill Harper

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

— Emily Mortimer