Acting Quotes · Page 70

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

— James Garner

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

— Melissa Leo

If you present yourself like trash, don't be expected to be treated like treasure.

— Kourtnee Willams

From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.

— Matt Letscher

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

— Pauline Oliveros

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

— Katey Sagal

Sometimes You have to lose something to realize how silly you been acting.

— Lisa's Voice

I take talking as seriously as I do writing, acting and stand-up. Not everybody is good at talking.

— Robby Hoffman

Regardless of the success of a drama or film, I will be satisfied if viewers say that my acting has progressed and…

— Song Hye-kyo

I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it's something I was born with and…

— Ksenia Solo

I am quite a perfectionist. So there's a lot of turmoil that goes on because when I'm acting my main desire and…

— Aimee Lou Wood

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to…

— Vinny Guadagnino

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a…

— Chadwick Boseman

If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all…

— Bob Bergen

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out…

— Amy Ryan

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well…

— Bill Murray

Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne…

— Paris Hilton

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors…

— Albert Brooks

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're…

— Rich Cohen

That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably…

— Denzel Washington

I've been very blessed, I think, or what do you call it... mmm... lucky to get at this stage what I have.…

— Katrina Kaif

I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because…

— Kirsten Dunst

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the…

— Eric Andre

I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to…

— Clint Eastwood

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

— Tony Randall

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

— Kristin Davis

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

— Charlie Hunnam

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

— Vic Mignogna

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

— Joanne Woodward

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

— Charles Durning

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

— Josh O'Connor

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

— Todd Rundgren

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

— Wallace Shawn

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

— Stella Adler

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

— Tom Hooper

I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

— Patti Harrison

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

— Stella Maeve