Acting Quotes · Page 74

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

— Damian Lewis

My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.

— Sangeetha Krish

I always like being a director in terms of giving acting notes and punching up on the fly.

— Matt Besser

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

— Subhash Kak

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

— Alicia Witt

If not acting, I could have done art direction, or sound, or camera, or costume for that matter.

— Sanjay Mishra

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

— Joan Crawford

For acting, a two-week workshop helped me break my shyness and made me able to perform in front of people.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!"…

— Ice Cube

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy;…

— Daniel Dae Kim

It's not just about television or films, or acting as a whole. It is all about doing only those things which make…

— Vatsal Sheth

After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks…

— Jerry A. Webman

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and…

— Max von Sydow

Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're…

— Nicholas Sparks

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was…

— Jody Hill

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also…

— Christine Lakin

During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt…

— Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Ewan was auditioning to get into acting college and asked me for advice as he wasn't connecting with the piece he was…

— Denis Lawson

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal…

— Richard Dreyfuss

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that…

— Meryl Streep

“I constantly watch people like Marion Cotillard or Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet... I have a fear of being passive, and what…

— Carey Mulligan

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally…

— Keira Knightley

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

— Jackie Coogan

For as long as I can remember, my acting crush has been Meryl Streep.

— Constance Zimmer

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

— Adelaide Clemens

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

— Laurence Fishburne

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

— Sinqua Walls

We want to see football. If people want to see acting, they go somewhere else, not the stadium.

— Lothar Matthaus

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

— Marisa Tomei

“[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?”

— Laurence Olivier

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

— Chris Noth

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

— Charlotte Rampling

It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with.

— Roman Polanski

My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.

— Vijay Deverakonda

“Maybe that’s why you love acting so much. Maybe you’re tired of being yourself.”

— J.M. Darhower

A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.

— Katharine Cornell

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

— Benjamin Stockham

Before I turned my attention to acting and writing I was a model.

— Keeley Hazell