Acting Quotes · Page 122

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

— Sarah Rafferty

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

— Andrew Scott

In spite of my parents being actors, I never took acting as a profession for granted and still don't.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

— Ian Mckellen

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

— Taylor Lautner

When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.

— Fahadh Faasil

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I have the best agent, manager, publicist, acting coach, and lawyer. Without them, I wouldn't have the opportunities that I've had.

— Rochelle Aytes

I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think…

— Nigel Hawthorne

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt…

— Mara Wilson

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

— Margaret Qualley

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

— Georges Clemenceau

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very…

— Julie Delpy

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end…

— Danny McBride

You have to give the crowd energy to feed off of and they will give it back. If you go on stage…

— Jadakiss

If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because…

— Jamie Dimon

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the…

— Clint Eastwood

I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never…

— Natasha Henstridge

No one likes to be typecast, but I would like to believe that the attention I get is for my acting, but…

— Lamman Rucker

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music,…

— Anonymous

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey.…

— Zach Galifianakis

I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said…

— Harshvardhan Rane

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

— Ben Kingsley

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

— Edie Falco

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

— Andy Serkis

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

— Melissa Leo

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum

I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

— Michael Pitt

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

— Randeep Hooda

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

— Lee Remick

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.

— Kartik Aaryan

Who would I be to be cowering to a bunch of gutless cowards acting like a bunch of tough guys online?

— Tim Kennedy

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

— Domhnall Gleeson

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

— Antonio Banderas

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

— Eva Mendes

When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.

— Abhimanyu Singh