Acting Quotes · Page 7

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week…

— Noel Coward

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do…

— Gary Coleman

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are…

— Ernest Gold

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space…

— Peter Jacobson

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

— Diana Silvers

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

— Sarah Parish

If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and…

— Michael Rooker

Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus…

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

— Juliette Binoche

Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world!…

— Pope Francis

In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and…

— Timothy Hutton

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

— John Wayne

You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the…

— Tom Felton

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be…

— Morgan Freeman

What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played,…

— Kate Winslet

I am not sure for how long I'll stick to this industry. Acting is just a part of my nomadic life.

— Nithya Menen

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other…

— James Gray

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have…

— Kirk Cameron

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor…

— Stella Adler

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

— Ivan Reitman

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

— Anjelica Huston

For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said,…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman