Acting Quotes · Page 259

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be…

— Ellen Galinsky

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

— Teresa Palmer

I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.

— Sydney Pollack

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

— Romola Garai

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

— Jules Renard

I do anchoring, but acting and dance is my first preference.

— Shibani Dandekar

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

— Jack Welch

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to…

— Ruth Wilson

Well, acting on stage is very different from acting on screen.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

— Rhys Ifans

“But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

This acting was very hard work.

— Jack Levine

I am very happy being an actor. I am doing very well for myself in the acting profession. I am not going…

— Sonu Sood

I listen much better when I'm acting than I do in real life.

— Sophie Okonedo

Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you…

— Rashida Jones

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly…

— Albert Einstein

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

I've always been attracted to acting as soon as I did my first video.

— Ginuwine

“Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, she could not…

— Elizabeth Strout

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and…

— Mark Twain

My freshman year at Columbia was the longest break I'd had from acting since I was six years old. When I was…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.

— Sanford Meisner

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

— Andy Serkis

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then 'Coronation Street' came along, and it was the chance of…

— Bradley Walsh

Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither…

— Michael Dertouzos

On screen I am the same as I am in real life. I have done almost everything, be it acting, dancing or…

— Karan Wahi

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

So I sat down in my student room and thought, when did I have a lot of fun? I realised it was…

— Sofia Helin

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not…

— Vincent Cassel

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is…

— Busta Rhymes

Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize…

— Laurie Glimcher

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

— Neha Dhupia

I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But…

— Paul Newman

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Obviously, being WWE Champion was my main goal in life, but when I started acting, the main thing I wanted to do…

— Edge

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

— Emmanuelle Riva

Acting is acting.

— Brent Spiner

I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the…

— Derek Landy

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

— Laozi