Acting Quotes · Page 262

Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any…

— David Leitch

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

— Ed Speleers

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse…

— Marlon Brando

I just wish that I had a part in everything Aaron Sorkin wrote. Sometimes I wish I was a member of an…

— Allison Janney

Suddenly people were saying I was cocky because I'd done a Steven Spielberg movie and thought I was better than everyone else,…

— Christian Bale

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

— Liev Schreiber

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how…

— Larry Moss

It's interesting because I'll be out, and someone will say, 'I just loved you on 'Passions'! Did you just quit acting after…

— Justin Hartley

In 2017, I was working part time in an optician's, about to turn 30, living at home with my parents, unsure whether…

— Nicola Coughlan

I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and…

— Channing Tatum

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

— Joanna Russ

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

— Kato Kaelin

Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I…

— Adam Beach

I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of…

— Michael Pena

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.

— Crystal Lowe

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of…

— Adam McKay

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

— Sanford Meisner

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend…

— Laura Linney

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

— Brit Marling

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

— Ishaan Khatter

A lot of acting is private time.

— Al Pacino

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life…

— Blake Lively

Acting has been my profession for more than 40 years and I can't retire.

— Lorne Greene

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch…

— Tracy Morgan

This is something that's been on my radar for quite some time actually, voice acting.

— Big E

I think proficiency in language helps greatly with acting.

— Pranitha Subhash

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

— Ralph Macchio

Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of…

— Regina King

Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

— Jessie Cave

I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can't audition, then you can't work. I studied…

— Danielle Macdonald

I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people…

— Oren Moverman

When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my…

— Mahesh Babu

Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.

— Nigel Barker

I'm able to look the person acting across from me and respond to that. There are times when it becomes so lonely…

— Son Ye-jin

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the…

— Joel Edgerton

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying…

— Liza Minnelli

The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the…

— Sarah Bernhardt

I was a barfly, so going to work and acting and rehearsing and then going and sitting in a bar and drinking…

— John Heard

If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy…

— Melissa Benoist