Acting Quotes · Page 53

When you're acting, playing the bad guy, you get a chance to open up this box inside and look at all the…

— Martin Kemp

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can…

— Hugh Jackman

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been…

— Bonnie Wright

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

— Marlon Brando

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I…

— Mira Sorvino

I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when…

— Jim Cummings

This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if…

— Michael Emerson

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course…

— Karan Patel

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in…

— Andy Serkis

There's an element of control that comes with acting which you've just got to be really mindful of.

— Jonathan Bailey

It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

— Andrew-Lee Potts

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I believe that I've grown in my acting career because I've become more confident. I've become less worried about what people think.…

— Brely Evans

You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I…

— Steven Michael Quezada

I definitely want to have a career in the TV/film industry, as I love acting, but if it all goes to pot,…

— Bella Ramsey

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said,…

— Josie Loren

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

— Sabrina Bryan

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

— Tracy Morgan

“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth…

— Milan Kundera

I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not…

— Corey Stoll

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.

— Taylor Momsen

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away…

— Johanna Braddy