Acting Quotes · Page 113

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

— Ivan Reitman

It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.

— Anushka Sharma

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

— Charles Churchill

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

— Felicity Jones

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

— David Ayer

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

— Shia LaBeouf

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

— Paul Mooney

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier.…

— Christina Ricci

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton…

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm thankful that I was able to show a better side of me in acting, and I hope that you'll continue to…

— Ok Taec-yeon

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same…

— Naturi Naughton

Once I was in L.A., I realized anyone could act. Why not give it a shot? I started going to a ton…

— Kellan Lutz

I would rather die a most horrible death for being myself. Then acting like something I'm not just for a bit of…

— Isaiah Harden (Me

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

— Kent Haruf

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind…

— Michael Redhill

One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a…

— John Gielgud

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's…

— Taylor Schilling

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room…

— Jessie J

What's so crazy about it is I grew up with this need to be seen, and suddenly I'm in a place where…

— Naomi Ackie

I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as…

— Ian Mckellen

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're…

— Rich Cohen

I've been very blessed, I think, or what do you call it... mmm... lucky to get at this stage what I have.…

— Katrina Kaif

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

— Juliette Binoche

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

— Russell Hornsby

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

— Fawad Khan

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

— Ray Winstone

When you are acting in a film, you are only worried about your performance and how the film will shape up.

— Atul Kulkarni

I'm a very simple and calm man, but when the camera is switched on, acting begins.

— Nana Patekar

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

— Tasha Smith

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

— Samuel Larsen

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

— Kristian Nairn

During my college days, I was known more for my dancing than for acting.

— Shakti Mohan

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

— Ice T

I listen much better when I'm acting than I do in real life.

— Sophie Okonedo

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

— Sydney Pollack

I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.

— Ruth Wilson

When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

— Winona Ryder

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

— Will Chase