Acting Quotes · Page 25

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

— Anna Paquin

I think I can strike a balance in politics and acting.

— Ravi Kishan

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

— Cameron Britton

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

— Paz de la Huerta

The big secret in acting is listening to people

— Eli Wallach

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

— Connie Brockway

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

— Dorothy Parker

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

— Lindsay Wagner

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

— Samuel Barnett

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

— Dan Millman

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

— Maggie Smith

If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!

— Katherine Jenkins

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

— David Haye

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

— Charity Shea

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

— Lee Ryan

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

— Shelley Winters

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we…

— Stephen Grosz

“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing…

— Simona Panova

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen…

— Tom Hiddleston

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into…

— Queen Latifah

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your…

— Spencer Tracy

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do,…

— Tom Hardy

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it…

— Nick Kroll

I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will…

— Georgia Groome

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be…

— Eddie Izzard

I think one of the fun things about getting older is that more roles open up for you to do. I'm excited…

— Dakota Fanning

Viewers don't see more of anchors because we shoot only once a week and it's aired across three months; so, you always…

— Karan Wahi

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in…

— Jeff Lindsay

I'm not really a movie star. No matter what I do in acting, whether I'm good, how much work I get, whatever,…

— Lauren Hutton

The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies,…

— Daniel Ellsberg

We're in a digital age where it's cool to be on your iPhone all the time. All of out-of-school activities my daughter…

— Ludacris

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you…

— Common

I never thought of quitting acting or the stage.

— Pratik Gandhi

I don't have a huge acting background at all.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

— Ron Perlman

I like everything about acting.

— Kevin Dillon

I never had an acting lesson.

— Sondra Locke

I believe acting is a director's medium completely.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

Acting is more creative and liberating than production.

— Abhay Deol

I really love both acting and singing equally.

— Brie Larson