Acting Quotes · Page 130

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

— Elsa Lanchester

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

— Anthony Hopkins

Why u acting fake when all I ever did was be real with you...

— Anonymous

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

— Karisma Kapoor

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

— Tim Robinson

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

— Kara Hayward

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

— Martin Freeman

My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with…

— Joshua Rush

In one part of my mind, I regret that there were 15 years spent not acting. But in the other part of…

— Lorne Greene

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst…

— Gloria Reuben

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.

— Travis Fimmel

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Acting became my best friend. When I auditioned to get into college, the teacher said you belong here, Mr. Klugman, and to…

— Jack Klugman

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor,…

— Chris O'Dowd

There's a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the…

— Sarah Goldberg

When you're acting and directing, you're standing there acting with another actor, and you're trying to do your performance, and at the…

— Kevin Heffernan

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of…

— Jennifer Stone

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious…

— Julianne Moore

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

— Antonio Banderas

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

— Nicholas Hoult

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

— Nicki Minaj

I don't discriminate against straight or gay people in casting; I'm open to good acting.

— Del Shores

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

— Dulquer Salmaan

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

— Brandon Jay McLaren

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

— Maddie Ziegler

“If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.”

— Derek Jacobi

Most acting is very melodramatic. It's not what you see in people.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.

— Mawra Hocane

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

— Blake Lively

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

— Christian Bale

I used to do karate, but then as acting and school got a little more hectic, I stopped.

— Isa Briones

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

— Stephanie Szostak

I try to acquire some new approach with each role in order to build up a varied acting technique.

— Van Heflin