Acting Quotes · Page 88

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

— Tom Sturridge

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

— Jeremy Shada

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

— Margaret Millar

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

— Sanjay Mishra

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

— Alicia Witt

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

— Subhash Kak

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

I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training.…

— Austin Stowell

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come…

— Emma Watson

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one…

— James Mill

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't…

— Miranda Otto

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel…

— Bob Odenkirk

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting…

— Ben Affleck

Shortly after I started working as a doctor, I decided to listen to the voice inside me before it was too late.…

— Jonathan LaPaglia

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued…

— Shraddha Srinath

I have been approached to direct films, but I think everybody has their limits. For me, I want to focus all my…

— Gong Li

I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway,…

— Christopher Walken

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to…

— Rex Harrison

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and…

— Kim Cattrall

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact,…

— Danica McKellar

I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the…

— Corey Stoll

I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales…

— Greg Kinnear

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one…

— Vinny Guadagnino

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

— Damian Lewis

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

— Jason Dohring

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

— Grant Show

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

— Jackie Coogan

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

— Nidhhi Agerwal

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

— Joan Crawford

I wanted to direct a film that can showcase my son's acting prowess.

— Thambi Ramaiah

I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

— Jack Lowden

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

— Natalia Tena

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

— Kelly McGillis

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

— Miyavi

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

— John Boorman

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

— Sylvester Stallone

“I guess you don't know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one.”

— Brock Clarke

Nobody knows all about acting till their last film or even after their last film.

— Ramya Krishnan