Acting Quotes · Page 55

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

— Elia Kazan

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

— Holly Hunter

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

— Stephen Collins

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is…

— Miranda Lambert

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

— Gene Wilder

Modelling is completely different from acting. They are two skills that you can't compare.

— Disha Patani

The thing that I didn't take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

— John Morrison

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and…

— Masi Oka

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped…

— Michael Shurtleff

I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind…

— Alia Shawkat

Priyanka Chopra has been my biggest inspiration. She has created her own brand and represented India not only in beauty pageants but…

— Harnaaz Sandhu

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get…

— Toni Servillo

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The…

— Simon Helberg

Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create…

— Thomas Jane

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't…

— Paddy Considine

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is…

— John Travolta

I have had a very physical acting career, but on 'Newsroom,' it's not about physicality, but it's about presence. I get to…

— Terry Crews

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to…

— Jessica White

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and…

— Gerald Edelman

I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't…

— Javier Bardem

When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a…

— Tom Noonan

Chhath Puja is very close to my heart. Few years back, I did a movie titled 'Chhathi Maiyya.' After acting in this…

— Ravi Kishan

I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you…

— Jim Jefferies

My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

— Eugenio Derbez

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

— Vicky Kaushal

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

— Logan Lerman

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

— Bella Ramsey

Heavy food tends to make you lethargic and can interfere with your whole acting process!

— Varun Sharma

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

— David Ginola

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

— Gillian Jacobs

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

— Francis Hutcheson

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

— Megan Mullally

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

— Neal McDonough

To make this sound very, very unromantic, acting is my job, and I really love the craft of it.

— Naomi Ackie

“I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.”

— Nick Enright

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

— Devon Werkheiser

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

— Josh Hutcherson

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

— Carla Gugino

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

— Thomas Jones