Acting Quotes · Page 277

One of the reasons I started acting was to re-make The Karate Kid, but Jaden Smith beat me to it.

— Justin Hires

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

— Julia Marlowe

For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when…

— Donnie Yen

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

— Tom Hiddleston

I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting... After I…

— Tye Sheridan

The approach to acting is always the same, you try to figure who the guy is and then you try to transition…

— Ron Perlman

Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works…

— Jamey Sheridan

I never think about the genre I'm in, really, when I'm acting. That's the director's job, to hone us in on the…

— Melissa Barrera

“some kids can't do drama because their life is a lie”

— Dmitry Dyatlov

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,…

— Lisa Schwarzbaum

Acting is always therapeutic.

— Nick Nolte

Michael Bisping's whole life is a film scene. He's always acting. Confronting me at UFC 213, it makes me laugh. It's a…

— Robert Whittaker

I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think…

— Liv Tyler

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of…

— Tom Hollander

I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always…

— Julia Sawalha

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself…

— Alan Rickman

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever,…

— Jim Carrey

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to…

— Tim Holmes

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a…

— Juliette Lewis

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the…

— Eric Andre

Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about…

— John C. Reilly

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he…

— Nicolas Cage

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

— Rowan Atkinson

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not…

— Stewart O'Nan

I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing.

— Kaya Scodelario

Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the…

— John Cleese

Eleven years of acting it has been for me, and I still sometimes think I am not cut out for this. I…

— Ileana D'Cruz

I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started.

— Carel Struycken

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to…

— Stan Lee

Working with Nawazudin Siddiqui was like an acting workshop. It helped me become a more confident person.

— Shweta Tripathi

Acting is where my heart is. I love acting.

— Fiona Gubelmann

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in…

— Loni Anderson

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

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes…

— Monica Keena

It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's…

— Rowan Atkinson

I started getting modelling assignments and that's how I became interested in acting. But my father, who last watched Dilip Kumar's '…

— Saqib Saleem

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

— Reid Scott

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into…

— Amit Trivedi