Acting Quotes · Page 108

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

— Louis L'Amour

Even when I'm acting, I carry my computer around and work on music.

— Seo In-guk

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

— Lizzy Caplan

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

— Sally Hawkins

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it.

— Luise Rainer

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

— Melanie Griffith

“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”

— Donna Tartt

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

— Sissy Spacek

When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set…

— Peter Capaldi

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is…

— Marianne Williamson

I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express…

— Amber Valletta

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to…

— Billy Magnussen

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote…

— Harry Lloyd

After 'Raees,' I used to wonder how I'd feel working on another film and to do this and still enjoy it -…

— Mahira Khan

I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the…

— Anne Reid

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and…

— Denis Leary

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for…

— Stella Adler

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it…

— Xavier Samuel

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make…

— Laurence Sterne

I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start…

— Margot Kidder

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life…

— Lisa Edelstein

One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same…

— James Wan

I started in theatre when I was a teenager, and I sort of fell into screen acting by accident because I had…

— Liv Hewson

It was definitely my goal to study and get good at acting. Music has been a part of my whole life but…

— Leisha Hailey

I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it.

— Frankie Cosmos

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

— Margot Robbie

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

— Orson Bean

Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.

— Aaron Stanford

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

— Will Oldham

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

— Ben Kingsley

I really don't like too much of the commercial acting in a lot of commercials.

— Boban Marjanovic

Actually, I don't care how I look as long as I'm acting.

— Agnes Moorehead

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

— Pythagoras

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

— Ricki Lake

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to…

— Tyra Banks

In 'Gayam,' I didn't act. RGV took care of me. In 'Goodachari,' I at least did some acting.

— Jagapathi Babu

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

— Ryan Kwanten

Unfortunately, there aren't enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.

— Taika Waititi

“To live a peaceful existence one should be trained in art of acting...”

— Manjula Jyothiprakash

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

— Omar Dorsey