Acting Quotes · Page 145

Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don't do it for fun.

— Sheila Hancock

I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it.

— Dakin Matthews

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

— Michelle Dockery

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

— Vin Diesel

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

— Ingrid Bengis

My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

— Anne Hathaway

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

— Kato Kaelin

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to…

— Dev Anand

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore.…

— Tracy Spiridakos

I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and…

— Joel McHale

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to…

— Maxwell Maltz

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on…

— Mary J. Blige

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I…

— Melissa McBride

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for…

— Song Hye-kyo

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not…

— Rebecca Hall

That's the one thing that's funny about going from modeling to acting. In modeling, you're supposed to think about what you look…

— Emily Ratajkowski

Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something…

— Fisher Stevens

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was…

— Matt Czuchry

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of…

— Albert Einstein

I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one…

— Haruki Murakami

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good…

— Forest Whitaker

I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old…

— Alex Pettyfer

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

— Andy Kindler

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

— Vinnie Jones

Being a model is a large part of who I am, and acting is my life's passion.

— Lydia Hearst

I love acting. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

— Michelle Trachtenberg

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

— Danny Masterson

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I wouldn't mind doing a gay role actually I think it would probably help me develope in my acting career.

— Michael Cera

With acting, a lot of it has to come from that real, honest place.

— Sam Esmail

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

— Edmund Burke

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.

— Elize Du Toit

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

— Nushrat Bharucha

I am making a conscious effort to ensure that my acting potential gets tapped in every project I do.

— Namrata Shirodkar

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

— Michael Moriarty

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

— Selena

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

— Haley Bennett

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

— Jamie Sives