Acting Quotes · Page 76

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

— Sarah Wayne Callies

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand…

— Bruce Willis

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for…

— Christopher Parker

Music comes naturally, but acting is a mind challenge and I have a huge passion for it.

— Demi Lovato

I didn't know that I could act, but my friend told me, 'Before you do directing, maybe you should try acting. It…

— Choi Woo-shik

Acting is a very strange thing. It isn't about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking.

— June Brown

I feel an acting stint would help me widen my reach as a singer. Being an actor would let me reach out…

— Badshah

I thought, 'Oh, acting is going to be great - I get to play different parts.' And then these auditions started coming…

— Maz Jobrani

Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break…

— Dustin Hoffman

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For…

— Michel Hazanavicius

To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to…

— Isabelle Huppert

I thought it would be easy to cast a Bond girl, because there are so many beautiful women in this world. But…

— Marc Forster

“Living in California, everyone learns to adapt their actor or actress within.”

— Courtney Carola

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also…

— Gene Hackman

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

— Alicia Keys

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and…

— Rashida Jones

I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to…

— Vanessa Morgan

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet…

— Zoe Saldana

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the…

— Adolf Hitler

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

— Jeff Bridges

If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood…

— Robert Gossett

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if…

— Derek Jacobi

When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

— Jacob Tremblay

I like acting impulsively, but I'm also extremely thoughtful about what I do. So, it's not like someone would say 'Don't do…

— Lily Collins

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to…

— Greg Davies

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to…

— Vikram Bhatt

I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it's just looking at how people react…

— Sterling Beaumon

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

— Blythe Danner

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and…

— Patrick J. Adams

I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and…

— Michael Pena

I wasn't trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I…

— Deepti Naval

I've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do…

— Chris Tucker

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you…

— Norman Vincent Peale

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act…

— Ivan Sutherland

I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself…

— Anthony Hopkins

I actually grew up hearing this a lot: 'If you're an actor, you can only be an actor, and you have to…

— Todd Louiso

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

— Helen Mirren

Generally, there's a lot of ad-lib involved with live TV and things like that, whereas with acting in front of the camera,…

— Edge