Acting Quotes · Page 90

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

— Charles de Gaulle

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My greatest acting performance was pretending to enjoy the movie 'Selma'.

— Ann Coulter

Well, thank God I have this face, and it's a believable face, and that also seems to be my acting style.

— Mariette Hartley

You have to stay focused. You have to be on point. You can't call in sick. Acting takes a lot out of…

— Angus Cloud

“If You Change The Point Of View Before Acting , Everything Starts To Get Easier”

— Ionut Cazacu

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

— Jack Welch

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do,…

— Tom Hardy

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your…

— Spencer Tracy

When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't…

— Lisa Rinna

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt…

— Lena Dunham

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I…

— William S. Burroughs

All I try to do is to realize the man I'm playing fully, then put as much into my acting as I…

— James Cagney

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me.…

— Michael Moriarty

You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is…

— Susan Jeffers

Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when…

— Conan Stevens

“Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to…

— Susan Wiggs

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing…

— Hiroyuki Sanada

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him…

— Chris Messina

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out…

— Paul Robeson

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an…

— Nat Wolff

Looking back, when my cousins and I were kids, we'd put together these little skits - these 10-minute improv scenes. I didn't…

— Anthony Ramos

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

— Cole Sprouse

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

— Rachel Weisz

Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

— Oprah Winfrey

I didn't want to do comedic acting because I don't think I am very good at it.

— John Bishop

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

— Dwight Henry

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

— Janhvi Kapoor

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

— Keke Palmer

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

— Robert Downey, Jr

Acting is what I want to do and as long as I believe in myself, I know that I will reach where…

— Neha Sharma

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

— Elvis Presley

I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

— Liam Cunningham

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

— William Shakespeare

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

— Peter Stormare

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to…

— Gary Oldman

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

— Minka Kelly

I want to open businesses, invest in different things, and put more time into modeling and acting.

— Lil Mosey