Acting Quotes · Page 124

One thing just led to another, and today, here I am, acting in a daily soap, and I am just loving it.

— Shaheer Sheikh

It's fun, as acting always is. Where else can one indulge one's wildest fantasies as part of the job?

— Nicholas Hammond

I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

Like anyone else I have my downs, and acting can be tough - I was doing a 70-hour week when I was 14.

— Bernard Cribbins

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

— Emma Stone

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

— Nikki Cox

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

— Jonathan Tucker

Acting is about being in the moment and audiences are smart to know what is authentic and what is not.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I…

— KiKi Layne

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are…

— Michael Shurtleff

With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about…

— Claire Danes

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me…

— Kaya Scodelario

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with…

— Matthew Lewis

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity…

— Paul Newman

I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into…

— Morfydd Clark

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims…

— Mira Sorvino

I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in…

— Anna Camp

Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were…

— D. W. Griffith

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This…

— Lance Henriksen

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with…

— Molly Ringwald

“There’s the old saying, ‘Actions speak louder than words.’ If that’s true (and I believe it is), maybe our first action should…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that…

— Pierre Trudeau

When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.

— Toby Kebbell

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

— Anna Paquin

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

— Blake Lively

I always was a great fan of Malayalam cinema, Sathyan in particular. I loved their understated acting.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

— Serena Williams

I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.

— Adrianne Palicki

“Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.”

— Liv Ullmann

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

— Scotty McCreery

My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.

— Juliette Lewis

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

— Corey Haim

Truly successful people don't rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

— Amy Morin

I do really like my co-stars when I'm acting. As a person, as a partner, and as something beyond that.

— Joo Won

Life is not about acting in films alone. There are so many things in life other than films and acting.

— Mohanlal

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

— Peter Vack

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

— Malik Yoba