Acting Quotes · Page 24

I take to acting like a fish to water.

— Sowcar Janaki

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

— James Purefoy

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

— Lillie Langtry

Any day acting is an amazing day.

— Kiernan Shipka

My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

— Karolina Kurkova

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

— Philip Massinger

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

— Genevieve Bujold

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

— Liev Schreiber

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

— Nick Frost

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

— Dylan O'Brien

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

— Jennifer Grant

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

— David Harbour

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

— Charles S. Dutton

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

— Kate Morton

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

— Evangeline Lilly

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it.…

— Melissa George

I always wanted to be in Bollywood and the first step towards that was by participating in school plays. I would get…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

— Edward Snowden

I live in the same house as I did when I started acting. My life hasn't changed. Only people around me have…

— Aidan Gallagher

The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world…

— Tom Weston-Jones

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting…

— Thomas Sowell

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled…

— Bernard Crick

Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release…

— Richard Hornby

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act…

— Max von Sydow

Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done…

— Terri Irwin

I used to take acting so seriously, but after we did the Quest pilot and the show sold, Kurt Russel said, "You…

— Tim Matheson

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee.…

— Emily Deschanel

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like…

— Kris Kristofferson

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is…

— Bertrand Russell

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts…

— Anton Seidl

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when…

— Barack Obama

I think the god of acting is kind to me.

— Paterson Joseph

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

— Patti Page

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

— Julianne Hough

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.

— Charlotte Rampling

With acting, I didn't get much from it.

— Karl Pilkington

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon

— Rachael Leigh Cook

I think acting is getting better and better.

— William H. Macy

If I'm not acting, I'm writing.

— Brett Goldstein