Acting Quotes · Page 89

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

— Gale Harold

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

— Anushka Sharma

I am happy that I am getting roles to prove my acting calibre.

— Shweta Tripathi

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

— Keeley Hazell

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

— Benjamin Stockham

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

— Katharine Cornell

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

— J.M. Darhower

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

Let's be honest: Ignoring is acting, and nothing more — acting as though the words or actions of your oppressors don't hurt.…

— Frank Peretti

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can…

— Amy Heckerling

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet…

— Aaron Yoo

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college…

— John Corbett

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it…

— Nick Kroll

I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will…

— Georgia Groome

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen…

— Tom Hiddleston

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into…

— Queen Latifah

I liked being on stage because it gave me a reason to be around people. The other great thing about acting is…

— Daveed Diggs

Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date…

— James Patterson

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a…

— Kelly Hu

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I…

— Tahj Mowry

I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was…

— Alanna Masterson

You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I…

— Jay Ellis

I always say, "Don't let a 'no' or even a dismissal defeat you, let it be the fire that makes you want…

— Sutton Foster

I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation,…

— Dichen Lachman

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

— Tamlyn Tomita

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

— Jason Statham

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

— Kristy Swanson

There are a lot of projects I want to do with producing and acting outside of wrestling.

— Big Show

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

— Lothar Matthaus

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

— Sinqua Walls

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

— Laurence Fishburne

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

— Adelaide Clemens

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

— Constance Zimmer

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

— Vijay Deverakonda

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

— Roman Polanski

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

— Charlotte Rampling

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

— Chris Noth

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

— Laurence Olivier

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

— Marisa Tomei

The industry has definitely changed since the time I started acting in films.

— Esha Deol