Acting Quotes · Page 115

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

— John Taylor Gatto

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It…

— Georges Clemenceau

There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the…

— Jay Mohr

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right…

— Jessica Lange

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

— Maggie Smith

There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them…

— Andy Garcia

When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better -…

— Jonathan Dee

The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your…

— Lake Bell

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

To be honest, I think music is such an important part of life, not just for acting.

— HoYeon Jung

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and…

— Diego Boneta

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

— John Lithgow

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have…

— Song Joong-ki

All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's…

— Joel Kinnaman

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

— Joseph Murphy

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

— Swoosie Kurtz

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

— Roger Moore

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

— Thomas Kretschmann

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like…

— Hugh Jackman

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing…

— Billy Crudup

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

— Rob James-Collier

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the…

— Viola Davis

“Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting.”

— Dan Brown

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an…

— Matt Ross

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I really do think you lose the audition on the first ten seconds. I think you walk in, the casting directors and…

— Chris Demetral

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I…

— Ian Mckellen

“By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit…

— Tina Fey

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have]…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

— Tim Vine

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior,…

— Bernard Sahlins

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid…

— Katheryn Winnick

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

— James Lipton

I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'

— Pierce Brosnan

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

— Gloria Stuart

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or…

— Edie Falco

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as…

— Gregory Harrison

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

— Adam McKay