Acting Quotes · Page 57

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

— Aaliyah

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

— Steve Zahn

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

— Ernst Levy

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

— Ian Mckellen

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

— LL Cool J

In wrestling, I don't consider it acting because it's improv.

— Laurel Van Ness

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

— Brett Ratner

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

— George Eads

I think the way that I delivered my request for acting was undeniable, and I think that I was blessed enough to…

— Nina Arianda

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making…

— McKayla Maroney

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to…

— Eliza Dushku

I made a sort-of living in the beginning of my acting career as a reporter. I think my very first job was…

— Amy Landecker

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and…

— Brendan Gleeson

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

— Keanu Reeves

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do…

— Mark Ruffalo

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

— James Gray

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British…

— Heston Blumenthal

For me, one of the lessons from 9/11 is that you have to give the organization context for how you're acting, and…

— Kenneth Chenault

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky,…

— Wentworth Miller

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for…

— Kay Kay Menon

“[Constance Bennett] never tired of acting, said Peter Plant. “She liked it, she enjoyed it, and she worked very hard at it.…

— Eve Golden

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only…

— Ian Mckellen

I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay…

— Derek Luke

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was…

— Lynn Shelton

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

— Adam McKay

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

— Heraclitus

I think that Brad Pitt is definitely a hottie. And his acting is so great that it makes him even more sexy.

— Stacy Keibler

I am going to branch out to acting and do more modeling.

— Tori Bowie

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”

— Oscar Wilde

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

— David Canary

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

— Amit Kalantri

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

— Andy Serkis

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

— Eric Stoltz

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

— Denzel Washington

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

— Cody Horn

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

— Ralph Strangis

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

— Alley Mills

I feel I am incapable of making Hindi movies. But I don't mind acting in them just to earn my bread and…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

While I'm acting, I'm a professional, and then I don't break into cold sweat for whatsoever reason.

— Prabhu Deva

Music comes naturally, but acting is a mind challenge and I have a huge passion for it.

— Demi Lovato