Acting Quotes · Page 87

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

— Christina Ricci

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

— Piper Laurie

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

— Dan Levy

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

— Jayma Mays

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

— James Cosmo

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

— Justin Theroux

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

— Ester Dean

“We are all acting on stage and the world is our audience.”

— Antonello Fiore

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

— Kal Penn

I love acting as a passion. It's something that is really fulfilling to me. But the core of it, which is one…

— Dylan Sprouse

I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good…

— Michael Ealy

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me…

— Anonymous

I have absolutely no problem on doing a negative character. If that matches up to my acting caliber, I will definitely do…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the…

— Martin Freeman

When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I…

— Paul Dano

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you're away a lot. If you're dating somebody outside the industry,…

— Keira Knightley

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the…

— Thomas Paine

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's…

— Eddie Redmayne

I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I hope I can keep acting because I love it. It's like a crazy, addictive rollercoaster... it takes you up and down,…

— Juno Temple

Go where the opportunity is. A lot of people want to act or sing or make music, but until you fully commit…

— Hilarie Burton

I started acting professionally when I was 10. I've always been in and out of school. I remember feeling so out of…

— Sophie Thatcher

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other…

— Elizabeth Henstridge

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was…

— Wentworth Miller

I sang when I was in primary school, and I did singing at Sylvia Young: no acting at all.

— Lashana Lynch

I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.

— Jane Levy

The thing I crave for the most is appreciation for my acting.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

— Eric Bogosian

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

— Peggy Lipton

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

I do a little bit of acting, but I wouldn't call myself an actor.

— Ryan Higa

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

— Ewan McGregor

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

— Paul Henreid

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

— Liana Liberato

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

— Sophie Thatcher

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

— Anna Maxwell Martin

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

— Tim Robbins

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

— Big E

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

— Phoebe Cates