Acting Quotes · Page 79

It's only in acting where I've heard in auditions, 'Can you black it up a little bit? Can you make her a…

— Yvonne Orji

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In…

— Carolyn Jones

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working…

— Lynn Shelton

Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then…

— Joanna Macy

I was easygoing and shy, but I could also be a little performer at times. Acting allows me to express versions of…

— Harris Dickinson

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces,…

— Nicolas Cage

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

— David Mamet

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more…

— Josh Duhamel

If you present yourself like trash, don't be expected to be treated like treasure.

— Kourtnee Willams

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was…

— Cate Blanchett

I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of…

— Adam Scott

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to…

— Parker Posey

I wasn't sure if I would survive in the film industry in the beginning. So, I gave myself six months to see…

— Raashi Khanna

People forget that it's an acting assignment. You can work with someone for three months, three years or 30 years, and then…

— Isaiah Washington

I'm mad creative for acting.

— Ed Skrein

I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were…

— Lydia Wilson

If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.

— Tab Hunter

It's - you know, acting's all about relatability and finding empathy for a character, which is essentially, kind of, you're finding empathy…

— Anthony Carrigan

I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so…

— Utkarsh Ambudkar

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that…

— Patricia Routledge

Modelling, for me, I find that it's like acting.

— Stella Maxwell

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

— Logan Marshall-Green

You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel,…

— Wayne Dyer

Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was…

— Phyllis Logan

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or…

— Alycia Debnam Carey

I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And…

— John Mulaney

I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what…

— Mikey Madison

I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

— Leighton Meester

I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the…

— Stephen Sondheim

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it…

— Michael Sheen

Acting is so... You get too involved in emotions and the idea of self. Carpentry is just very simple and skill-based.

— Harris Dickinson

I wanna get into modeling a little bit, even acting. Just expanding myself as an artist because the music thing ain't forever,…

— Kevin McCall

I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.

— Liza Minnelli

I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!

— Gwendoline Christie

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being…

— Wentworth Miller

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice…

— Katie Lowes

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when…

— Javed Jaffrey

I just stumbled into acting; my first choice indeed was music and sports.

— Prateik Babbar