Acting Quotes · Page 72

Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.

— James Cosmo

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

— Jayma Mays

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

— Dan Levy

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

— Piper Laurie

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

— Roger Allam

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

— Theo Rossi

“If you're acting, you're wasting your time. If you're not, you're wasting mine.”

— Mommie Dearest

If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

— Mandy Moore

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do…

— Marlon Brando

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful…

— Cameron Britton

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between…

— Miyavi

It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't…

— Val Kilmer

First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the…

— Lee Grant

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing,…

— Anonymous

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I…

— John Hurt

I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture…

— John Leguizamo

I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can't audition, then you can't work. I studied…

— Danielle Macdonald

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to…

— Kevin Bacon

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I…

— DJ Qualls

To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I…

— Dave Franco

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw…

— Peter Riegert

It's extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you've been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That's why I'm still hooked…

— Eileen Atkins

I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought…

— Geoffrey Rush

When it comes to acting on green screen, it doesn't really make all that much of a difference to me because how…

— Anita Briem

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

— Nicole Maines

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

— Roger Allam

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

— John Corbett

Like they say: The acting is for free. I get paid to wait.

— Leighton Meester

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

— Jimmy Butler

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

— Anna Maxwell Martin

I have a lot more control with music, whereas with acting, there are so many people involved.

— Sophie Thatcher

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

— Liana Liberato

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

— Margaret Millar

I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

— Jeremy Shada

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

— Tom Sturridge

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

— Phoebe Cates

This is something that's been on my radar for quite some time actually, voice acting.

— Big E

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

— Tim Robbins

Before getting into movies, I decided to get modeling or acting assignments in Delhi.

— Sonu Sood

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

— Rowan Atkinson