Acting Quotes · Page 53

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

— Judd Nelson

“Acting in life reveals its truths — Yvonne Padmos, Film Pressbattle with actress”

— Yvonne Padmos

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

— Melissa Leo

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

— Elaine Stritch

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

— Michael Chiklis

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

— Bette Davis

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

— Al Pacino

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

— Kate Bosworth

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind…

— Eva Mendes

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute…

— Barbara Stanwyck

“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

— Zoe Kravitz

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique…

— Erland Josephson

I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and…

— Paige VanZant

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

— Emilia Clarke

I read an article some years back in which Emma Thompson demeaned my mother's acting ability. My mother would be the first…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of…

— Lynne Stewart

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part,…

— Conrad Veidt

Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, you name it - I'm interested. I'm free. I'm looking for acting work. At the same time, you…

— Shiri Appleby

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should…

— Norman Finkelstein

I never attended any acting school, though I've done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching…

— Ishaan Khatter

I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't…

— Winona Ryder

Whenever I go to any particular event, people are shocked that I'm a fighter. To be a fighter, I have to look…

— Ritika Singh

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

— James Maslow

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.

— Kelvin Fletcher

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

— Carole Bouquet

'Superbad' was my first movie, but I've been acting since I was seven.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

— Nichelle Nichols

I want to go deep into fashion; I want to go maybe into acting. There's a lot of stuff I would like…

— Lil Peep

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

— Olga Kurylenko

I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.

— David Thewlis

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

— Lorenzo Lamas

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

— Robert Lloyd

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

— Jesse Eisenberg

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

— Dermot Mulroney

When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.

— Stephen Amell

'Y&R' is the No. 1 show, and the acting company is exceptional.

— Justin Hartley

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

— Philip Glenister