Acting Quotes · Page 283

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

— Pawel Szajda

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting…

— Jessica Simpson

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in…

— Neve Campbell

I always had acting in the back of my mind.

— Bob Crane

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there…

— Rebecca Solnit

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting…

— Toni Collette

During my 40-something-year acting career, I have always been about the work.

— Paul Raci

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.

— Sudeep

I'm a firm believer in God and I don't think he'd want me acting a certain way.

— Dwyane Wade

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty…

— Vivien Leigh

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that's OK. It helped me so much on a…

— Tamara Taylor

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

— Helen Mirren

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

— Will Oldham

I have always wanted to be an actor. I was just five when I started acting.

— Nana Patekar

I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go…

— Zoe Saldana

The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you.…

— Matthew Lillard

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call…

— Billy Campbell

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

— Disha Patani

People wrote me off when I joined the industry, my looks were criticised, my acting was slammed, my films didn't do well.…

— Suniel Shetty

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

— Johnny Depp

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

“With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.”

— Johnny Depp

I've done acting for years.

— Vogue Williams

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute…

— Barbara Stanwyck

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their…

— George Washington

Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay…

— Jaime Zevallos

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

— Liev Schreiber

Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning,…

— Mithila Palkar

When you're young, you get by on charm and good looks, not that I miss being charming or good-looking, but then you…

— Matthew Modine

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

— Adrian Pasdar

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design…

— Gabriel Basso

There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as…

— Zoe Bell

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

— Cyril Cusack

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot…

— Alex Pettyfer

I promised my mum that if something did happen to her, although I never thought anything would, I told her that I…

— Cory Hardrict

I had the best teacher in the business. Kevin Costner was my teacher. I was acting opposite him and he was directing…

— Olivia Williams

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and…

— David Suchet