Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the… — Chris Sarandon Copy Share Image
I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I… — Natasha Calis Copy Share Image
I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in… — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men need to be strong, but not bullies. They need to know how to not get emotionally lost in situations, but not… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I know this might sound a little cliche but, I feel like everybody is searching for the same thing, and that is… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Usually I approach to acting completely blindfolded. I read the script, I connect to the character, and then I try not to… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to work with a company of actors of such different ages, experience and talents. I'm one of a generation brought… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
People forget that it's an acting assignment. You can work with someone for three months, three years or 30 years, and then… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera,… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible.… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China.… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, as I explored these abandoned malls, I found myself acting like a kid all over again. At times jumping up… — Seph Lawless Copy Share Image
It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
![“A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for me that I wasn't aware of. And I had to become aware of them, because I didn't recognize that I could actually apply them across the board.” quote by Zoe Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/798/zoe-bell-4056_acting_a-couple-years-in-to-acting-i-recognized_940706.jpg)
![“There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to…” quote by Cillian Murphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c3/cillian-murphy-4370_acting_there-s-this-thing-that-s-come-about-tha_2033158.jpg)
