Acting Quotes · Page 119

'Sacred Games' has actually turned out to be the most challenging experience of my acting career.

— Kubra Sait

Even when I was busy with acting, dance has always been there. You can't separate the two.

— Shobana

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

— Phil Hartman

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

You can inculcate good acting and dancing abilities, but not singing.

— Neha Bhasin

I was the only one in my family who was absolutely focused on acting since I was a kid.

— Amyra Dastur

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

— Taryn Manning

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

— Ethan Hawke

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the…

— Justin Theroux

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of…

— Regina King

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front…

— Gabrielle Dennis

I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our…

— Amy Hardie

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do…

— Lauren London

I was dyslexic - still am dyslexic - and as child, I found things very difficult. I think my father realised that…

— Charley Boorman

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise…

— Luise Rainer

If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security…

— Yul Vazquez

Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting…

— Lauren Graham

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— Albert Camus

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec…

— Kenneth Branagh

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love…

— Alfred Molina

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J.…

— Bryan Greenberg

Well, basically I started when I was 12 years old in Montreal doing different Canadian children shows, which amounts to basically relative…

— Jay Baruchel

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me…

— Hunter Schafer

Acting has been my profession for more than 40 years and I can't retire.

— Lorne Greene

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

— Ava Gardner

I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go.

— Summer Phoenix

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

— Laurence Olivier

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

— Marlon Brando

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

— Bram Stoker

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

— Allegra Versace

I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.

— Shiri Appleby

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

— Maggie Smith

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

— Rainn Wilson

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

— Mandy Patinkin

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was…

— Gemma Arterton

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

— Terrence Howard

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

— Parker Posey

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

— Veronica Roth

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

— Mia Wasikowska