Acting Quotes · Page 51

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

— Alessandro Nivola

I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in…

— Lou Doillon

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in…

— Jane Fonda

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

— Anonymous

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let…

— James Franco

You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.

— Don Coscarelli

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

— Jaclyn Smith

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's…

— Harland Williams

My mum was an actor until she started having children. I was the first child, so in a way I was the…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always…

— Kelli O'Hara

I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate…

— Joe Taslim

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

— Zoe Kazan

Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And…

— Jennifer Hale

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

— Mariel Hemingway

I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in…

— George Saunders

Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know…

— Noah Baumbach

If you want to be an actor today you have to come prepared with the entire package, which includes acting, dancing, action,…

— Akshaye Khanna

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way…

— Dito Montiel

Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino,…

— Ashley Judd

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

— Lucas Neff

I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

It was a wonderful experience acting with Prasenjit Chatterjee, the reigning king of Kolkata's film industry.

— Manisha Koirala

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero,…

— Rupert Murdoch