Acting Quotes · Page 105

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that…

— Albert Einstein

Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a…

— Ellen Schreiber

Acting is my first love.

— Dawn Wells

Some people just come to a rally to see the stars. But some do take us seriously. They have been watching us…

— Asrani

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

— Henry David Thoreau

In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified…

— Jeff Goldblum

I know my talent when it comes to acting. But will I get the opportunity to showcase? That fear seeps in when…

— Kartik Aaryan

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When I entered the film industry, I didn't know anything about acting.

— Kirti Kulhari

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

— Beverly D'Angelo

When I was a kid, I thought good acting was fascinating, and I could tell the difference. I could see that at…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely…

— Kenya Moore

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

— Nick Wechsler

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

— Steve Jobs

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

— Marlon Brando

I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could…

— Jovan Adepo

You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you…

— Jane Goodall

I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking…

— Robert Redford

There is still so much that I want to see and do, but for me, it's the pure satisfaction of doing what…

— Joel Basman

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to…

— Jon Voight

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and…

— Abbie Cornish

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and…

— Aristotle

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a…

— Clint Howard

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

— Sanam Saeed

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

— Bill Hunter

I've definitely had some tough schoots. I'd say everything that I've done has had some sort of challenge that I've had to…

— Hailee Steinfeld

I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain…

— Gretel Ehrlich

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 had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

— Ken Kesey

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs…

— Sybil Thorndike

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why…

— Isabella Rossellini

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

— Eddie Redmayne

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

— Emilia Clarke

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— Albert Camus

It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes…

— Zoey Deutch

“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,…

— William Shakespeare

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

— Lake Bell

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and…

— Haley Joel Osment

If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each…

— Noam Chomsky

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance…

— Jack Kornfield