Acting Quotes · Page 101

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

— Yara

“The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will be the expression of it.”

— Honoré de Balzac

I am able to do social service only because of the name I gained from acting.

— Suresh Gopi

For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I'm doing more acting, but I'm also focusing on strongman.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

— Queen Latifah

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

— Michael Pena

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

— Diane Keaton

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a…

— Jeffrey Combs

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative…

— Roger Bannister

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as…

— Pauline Collins

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a…

— Rebecca Hall

To me ,acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress,…

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to…

— Ayelet Shaked

It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I…

— Keira Knightley

Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as…

— Luke Evans

It's my instinct to think 'I have to say yes or there won't be another job.' But I've been working on films…

— Keira Knightley

It's a fun show, BoJack Horseman to do, and that gets around. It's easy, especially for a lot of actors who don't…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You…

— Meister Eckhart

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights,…

— Thomas Paine

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. I want to try and…

— Joe Swanberg

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are…

— Jordan Bridges

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

— Lance Reddick

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

— Erika Eleniak

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in…

— Rila Fukushima

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

— Roger Allam

A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.

— Ross Lynch

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot…

— Alex Pettyfer

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

— Dominic Cooper

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

— Brigitte Bardot

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

— Tim Robbins

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

— Roddy McDowall

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

— Simon Sinek

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

— Brenton Thwaites

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

— Catherine Oxenberg

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

— Yvonne Strahovski