Acting Quotes · Page 80

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

— Henry Cavill

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

— Juliette Lewis

When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.

— Billie Lourd

I love acting, I love directing, I love writing, I love producing, I love creating.

— Joivan Wade

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

— Ileana D'Cruz

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

— Clint Eastwood

My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

— Sam Robards

I don't think acting should be all-encompassing. So, when I'm not shooting, I'll go down to Mexico on a spear-fishing trip for…

— Tanc Sade

I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around…

— Benjamin Walker

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you're working. But…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music…

— Barkhad Abdi

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career.…

— Oona Chaplin

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds…

— Dolph Lundgren

I never studied acting in Australia. I never had an empty stage and black pajamas to run around and express myself.

— Heath Ledger

Part of progressing in acting is turning down work, and that's hard; it's very, very hard to do. And I think you…

— Robert Sheehan

Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood…

— Noel Coward

Claire Danes in 'Homeland' just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody…

— Jeremy Podeswa

I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago…

— Melissa Leo

The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty…

— Thomas Malthus

As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of…

— Marcus Aurelius

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked…

— David Duchovny

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come…

— Tina Fey

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but…

— Katherine Parkinson

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

— Jay Baruchel

I want to do straight, dramatic acting so I do a hit show when you get chased by aliens!

— John Bishop

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

It's going great. This is what I love to do, make music and throw in a little acting on the side.

— Billy Ray Cyrus

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent

— Julie Christie

It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

— Kassie DePaiva

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

— Roselyn Sanchez

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

— Marlon Brando

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

— Manish Dayal

On '50/50,' even though it was 8 million dollars, it was all acting-intensive.

— Jonathan Levine

I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.

— Matthew Lewis

You're not going to learn about acting on TV and in film. You'll learn more in plays and in class.

— Andrea Navedo

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

— Annette Bening

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

— Ian Mckellen

I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.

— Conchata Ferrell