Acting Quotes · Page 119

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

— Tim Robbins

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing…

— Jimmy Cliff

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere…

— Andrew Harvey

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find…

— John Malkovich

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

— George Clooney

I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I…

— Dennis Hopper

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would…

— William Friedkin

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

— Mario Cantone

In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across…

— Rishi Kapoor

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their…

— Albert Einstein

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I…

— Craig Horner

The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great…

— Rachel Bloom

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together…

— Rob Corddry

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

— Jeremy Irons

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who…

— Eve Plumb

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just…

— Danica McKellar

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

— Tom Ellis

I had some acting experience; I studied theater in high school, but high school theater does not compare to Marvel Universe, let…

— Iman Vellani

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I realised that acting is not my god.

— Letitia Wright

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good…

— Steve Martin

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

— Asghar Farhadi

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting.…

— Michael Caine

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

— Pythagoras

My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

— Anne Hathaway

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and…

— George Hamilton

Acting on TV is ruled out. I admire those who do it, but I found it quite strenuous.

— Hema Malini

I'm going with Charlotte Rampling. In 45 Years [movie], you start out feeling so bad for her, and then it kind of…

— Bun B

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

— Vincent Kartheiser

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true…

— Robert De Niro

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Each man has some part to play.

— Adelaide Anne Procter

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

— Jonathan LaPaglia

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in…

— Jeff Lindsay

When I joined the industry, people were not very appreciative of models turning to acting.

— Rahul Dev

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

— Ralph Strangis

I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.

— Diane Guerrero

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

— Thornton Wilder