Acting Quotes · Page 22

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only…

— Ian Mckellen

I love acting and the whole idea of being in front of the camera.

— Kunal Khemu

The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long…

— Simon Pegg

I am passionate about a few things, of course acting, films/TV and improving the lives of youth in urban communities.

— Jamie Hector

Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your…

— Dean Koontz

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so…

— James Preston Rogers

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

— Meryl Streep

The whole process of acting is transformation. What is your power, quality and level of transformation, define you as an actor.

— Neeraj Kabi

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's…

— Peter Mullan

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

— Hugh Dancy

Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.

— Sarah Lancashire

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and…

— Fiona Gubelmann

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became…

— Om Puri

I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion…

— Cara Delevingne

I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors.…

— John Lithgow

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

— Keeley Hawes

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances…

— Michael Marmot

I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school…

— George Ogilvie

“The words on the page are only clues to the life boiling underneath them.”

— Zelda Fitchandler

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities…

— Angelina Jolie

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into…

— Amanda Seyfried

Acting is acting, regardless of the medium.

— Jim Sarbh

I had never really thought about acting as art. You know, growing up in Youngstown, the Rust Belt of the world, it…

— Chris Zylka

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted…

— Big Sean

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

— Michael Shurtleff