Acting Quotes · Page 60

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

— Elia Kazan

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally…

— Julie Delpy

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

— Blake Lively

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

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into…

— Emily Procter

I love being a comic but I love acting as well. They're both very necessary avenues for me.

— Deon Cole

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

— Sam Rockwell

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

— Melissa Leo

I don't plan my acting. If I had to copy someone, it would be someone like the legendary Sridevi. I am really…

— Ayesha Takia

My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did,…

— Colin Morgan

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because…

— Clifton Collins, Jr

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

— Lindsay Wagner

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

— Shari Sebbens

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

— Douglas Booth

Consistency is the death of good acting.

— Michael Shurtleff

At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

— Jacob Batalon

I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's…

— Phoebe Fox

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was…

— Suzanne Somers

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea.…

— Linda Hunt

If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,…

— Rod Dreher

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some…

— Charlton Heston

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm…

— Lynn Redgrave

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

— Michael Sheen

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated…

— Tina Turner

Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration... it's mentally draining.

— Mike Colter