Acting Quotes · Page 58

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

— Mickey Rooney

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

— Deanna Durbin

I'm always open to acting in Tamil films. In fact, I'm open to films from the south.

— Riya Sen

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

— Isabella Rossellini

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

— Ron Howard

I would like to help young women writing comedy, acting, anything like that.

— Rachel Sennott

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

— Nafisa Joseph

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

— Anthony Hopkins

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so…

— Evanna Lynch

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be…

— Melanie Lynskey

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have]…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would…

— Morgan Freeman

Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in…

— Ariana Richards

I want to be a big mainstay in the media and want to do more acting. I'd also love my own talk…

— Dylan Alcott

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a…

— Brit Marling

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

— Tim Matheson

The ghost caliphate will be a virtual organization; it'll be decentralised, with no leadership, and it will just encourage people to keep…

— Malcolm Wrightson Nance

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long…

— Matisyahu

I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes…

— Agyness Deyn

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with…

— Liane Balaban

When I'm onstage doing standup, no one yells "Cut!" or tells me what to do. I'm DeRay, and I use my own…

— DeRay Davis

We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more…

— Dana Hill

To spend time with Ed Harris... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.

— Jim Sturgess

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

— John Hurt

I like acting because it's enjoyable work and a nice way to make a living.

— Joe Don Baker

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

— Bill Murray

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

— Neal Katyal

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

— Rob Lowe

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

— Napoleon Hill

Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.

— Barry Keoghan

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

— Illeana Douglas

“Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.”

— Antonia Quirke

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

— Ray Liotta

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

— Val Kilmer

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

— Mickey Rourke

I've been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.

— Conchata Ferrell