Acting Quotes · Page 86

“Life made me an actor from birth. The world, darling, is not my stage but my audience.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

— Ritika Singh

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not

— Tea Leoni

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

— Anonymous

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

— Kerry Washington

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

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

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

— Mahesh Babu

I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a…

— Manny Montana

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it,…

— Lydia M. Child

When I did 'Clockers,' I didn't even think about having a career in acting, I just thought, 'Wow, this is cool. I…

— Mekhi Phifer

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It…

— Alison Elliott

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told…

— Lukas Haas

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but…

— Udo Kier

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like…

— LL Cool J

You must allow yourself to start thinking BIGGER and acting BOLDER with regards to what's possible for you. Seriously. Don't wait. Start…

— Hal Elrod

If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand…

— Barack Obama

I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love…

— James Franco

I don't know that I had context for being trans until I moved to Rochester, New York, to pursue my dream of…

— Angelica Ross

Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you…

— Rashida Jones

The fact that, I've heard anecdotally, careers officers regularly tell students who think about a career in the arts, particularly in acting,…

— Paterson Joseph

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold…

— Kurt Angle

I am as curious about my daughter's acting debut as the rest of the world. I think Alia has got the best…

— Soni Razdan

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as…

— Matisyahu

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

— Brittany Murphy

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

— Tom Felton

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

— James Franco

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

— Mommie Dearest

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

— Theo Rossi

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

— Roger Allam

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

— Jimmy Butler

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

— Leighton Meester

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

— John Corbett

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

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

— Nicole Maines

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

— Mandy Moore

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

— Robert Pattinson

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

— J. B. Smoove

For my money, acting has been over-intellectualized. It's only playing.

— Denis Lawson