This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think it's very honest to say that we value male actors over everybody else. We think their acting is more serious… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
I think these days when life is so busy and I'm juggling acting, modelling and my organic skincare line - Naked by… — Lisa Haydon Copy Share Image
I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey.… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they… — Hero Fiennes-Tiffin Copy Share Image
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
Acting is always more fun for me.I love being a part of a story, I love collaborating, I love working with different… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
It's just the overall lack of privacy. I've always been a very shy person and so it invades that a lot. It… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them.… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but… — Katherine Parkinson Copy Share Image
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
When the scene is over, a lot of people cut. The actors are acting. And they just stop acting. But I think… — Clea DuVall Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time.… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were… — D. W. Griffith Copy Share Image
I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
“I know of no actor who is so pure onstage that he thinks only what his character thinks. If he did, he… — David Burke Copy Share Image
If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
![“I know of no actor who is so pure onstage that he thinks only what his character thinks. If he did, he would presumably become the character: a form of madness. This may be of course what happens to Hamlet--he puts on an antic disposition, and gets stuck with it. [...] Acting is mostly a…” quote by David Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e31/david-burke-69175_acting_i-know-of-no-actor-who-is-so-pure-onstag_1261360.jpg)
