Acting Quotes · Page 89

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you…

— Stella Adler

My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing…

— Jason Flemyng

I am still a villager who fell in love with acting.

— Pankaj Tripathi

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if…

— Robin Sharma

An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in…

— Michael Shurtleff

You really see that the art world bends over for Hollywood sometimes, in this way that is really grotesque, and the other…

— Thomas McDonell

Yes, I am acting in my singles, but that is very different from acting in a movie.

— Ankit Tiwari

With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters.…

— Sammi Hanratty

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental'…

— Murray Rothbard

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

— Allison Janney

I acted in 'Kaante' because Sanjay Gupta insisted me to do it. At that time, I had never thought that I would…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

— Vincent Price

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

— Felicity Jones

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

— Al Pacino

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up,…

— Rooney Mara

My sister pursued acting, and one day, I was like, 'Hey, I want to do acting, too' - this was just in…

— Jacob Tremblay

My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to.…

— Elizabeth Olsen

Painting is wonderful because its so private. Youre not beholden to a director or a producer. But acting has been really saving…

— James Franco

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20…

— Noah Hawley

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not really a movie star. No matter what I do in acting, whether I'm good, how much work I get, whatever,…

— Lauren Hutton

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe,…

— Sanford Meisner

Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying…

— Paddy Considine

I'm at the point in my career now, where I can take a bit of time to find exactly what roles are…

— Alexandra Daddario

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

— Anonymous

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can…

— Stanley Kubrick

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

— Alan Ball

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

— Jack Dee

There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher…

— Nestor Carbonell

Acting requires focus, too, but acting doesn't, you might say, demand focus. When you're in the ring you don't even have to…

— Bette Ford

I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.

— Astro

When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe…

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than…

— Melanie Lynskey

Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want…

— Drew Barrymore

I mean, acting is so easy! I love it and I'm good at it.

— Orson Bean

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people…

— Jeremy Miller

When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation.…

— Tamsin Greig

Nobody in my family is in the show business, and none of my friends were. I went to a very academic school…

— Freema Agyeman

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,…

— Jane Addams