Acting Quotes · Page 445

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew…

— Dean Norris

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

— Nicholas Hoult

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

— Dorothea Brande

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was…

— Spike Lee

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,…

— Ray Bolger

I love acting, but that's also kind of what I love about ballet - the acting. So, obviously, film is like an…

— Francesca Hayward

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

— LeToya Luckett

There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

— Orlando Brown

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But…

— Eddie Redmayne

Direction has taught me everything, even acting, as when you're on the field, on the practical grounds, you do everything.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not…

— Corliss Lamont

I acted in 'Rock & Roll High School' and I'm getting acting roles but they're a little strange. I'd like to do…

— Marky Ramone

I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long…

— Sam Huntington

As a kid I was always writing and directing plays in my basement with my neighborhood cronies. But please don't get me…

— Coley Sohn

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah,…

— Jordan Gavaris

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

— John Corbett

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

— Jacob Anderson

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is…

— Frederick Lenz

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

— Alia Shawkat

Toward the end of 11th grade, my acting teacher asked me if I was thinking about going to college. I said, 'Yeah,…

— Shalita Grant

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is…

— Richard Hornby

I think on both sides of the pond, there are pros and cons to TV and film, and I think that there…

— Cush Jumbo

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

— Colin Morgan

Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable.

— Kaya Scodelario

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

— Charlton Heston