Acting Quotes · Page 433

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

— Hugh Dancy

I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a…

— Neil Jackson

It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe…

— Lily Rabe

I have enjoyed acting, but getting into production is hectic. I am not made for it.

— Ayesha Takia

When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

'Superbad' was my first movie, but I've been acting since I was seven.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

— Prue Leith

I don't get bored at all while acting.

— Mohanlal

Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them…

— Matthew Moy

I love performing. I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about…

— Tatiana Maslany

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

— Marvin Hagler

As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting…

— Ian Gomez

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and…

— Tom Ellis

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be…

— Ian Somerhalder

After acting in several Hindi films, I have decided to be a producer.

— Dino Morea

I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since…

— Jenna Boyd

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern…

— Michelle Dockery

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary

Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.

— George Eads

I find myself acting for an editor more, because there's a quick turnaround with television, so you want to try and seem…

— Neil Patrick Harris

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

— Dabney Coleman

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level…

— Yvette Mimieux

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

— Jodie Foster