Acting Quotes · Page 127

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

— Charles S. Dutton

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.

— Hugh Grant

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

— Mpho Koaho

In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages.

— Atul Kulkarni

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

— Karolina Kurkova

Acting with my parents was nerve-wracking. If they watch me act on the sets I feel nervous and blocked.

— Meghana Raj

I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

— Renee O'Connor

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

— Kabir Bedi

I was co-producer on 'Hiss.' But I enjoy acting more than production. With producing, a lot of tension and a lot of…

— Mallika Sherawat

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age,…

— Carla Gugino

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect…

— Helen Slater

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I…

— James Franco

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that…

— Mike Wallace

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting…

— Jill Scott

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and…

— Xavier Dolan

I really like acting, but logically getting on stage to transmit the work of a composer who is inspired by God is…

— Jose Jose

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to…

— Jessica White

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to…

— Holliday Grainger

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's…

— Winona Ryder

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I…

— Naya Rivera

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they…

— Patrick Macnee

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked.…

— Michael Shannon

One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was…

— Laila Robins

Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're…

— Evan Ross

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you…

— Corbin Bernsen

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

— Chad Everett

But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.

— Killian Scott

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

— Mara Wilson

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

— Rebecca Hall

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

— Edward Norton

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

— James Garner

You see so many actors branching out into so many different things than just acting. It's so fantastic.

— Ayesha Takia

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

— Cate Blanchett

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

— Zoe Bell

Now that I have started acting in Bengali films, I will look forward to working with various directors.

— Riya Sen

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

— Lee Byung-hun

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

— Paul Newman

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

— Catherine Deneuve

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

— Adam Driver

When people see 'Masaan' or 'Haraamkhor,' they don't care how old I am. They just appreciate my acting.

— Shweta Tripathi