Acting Quotes · Page 68

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

— Gabriel Basso

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

— Stanley Tucci

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

— Diego Luna

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

— Andy Serkis

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

— Roger Moore

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

— Jonathan Keltz

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

— Nido R Qubein

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my…

— Maria Sharapova

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody…

— Winona Ryder

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone…

— Dylan McDermott

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of…

— Alec Baldwin

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know…

— Jack Black

I got interested in cinematography when I started watching Ingmar Bergman movies and a lot of Agnes Varda. But acting's working out…

— Iman Vellani

Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.

— Lisa Lampanelli

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than…

— Emma Kenney

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons.…

— Steve Harvey

It was not even that long ago when my acting career was in the gutter. I was just thinking that I didn't…

— Erin Foster

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -…

— Andrew Lau

Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played…

— Liev Schreiber

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the…

— Rebecca Hall

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a…

— Drew Barrymore

A really special part of acting to me is to be able to make an audience feel, and for you not to…

— Naomi Ackie

Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back…

— Michel Foucault

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

— Shannon Purser

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

— Kevin Schmidt

I never wanted to be an actress. Acting wasn't in my mind. It wasn't in my calculations.

— Esme Creed-Miles

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

— CJ Adams

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

— Arjun Kapoor

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better.

— Shanola Hampton

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

— Vanessa Hudgens

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

— Robert Loggia

I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

— Benjamin Bratt

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

— Steve Pavlina

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

— Rosalind Russell

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

— Nicole Kidman

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

— Storm Reid

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

— Karen Gillan

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

— Eddie Murphy

I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

— Michael Pitt