Acting Quotes · Page 131

I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.

— Charlie Murphy

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

— Logan Lerman

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

— Tom Noonan

Acting is probably the only profession where you are relying only on empathy.

— Richa Chadha

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

— Melody Beattie

Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.

— Saqib Saleem

I'm not from an acting family. I'm from a working class family.

— Sophie Okonedo

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

— Nolan Gould

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I…

— Tom Selleck

You give, actually, what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. That's what you can give; it's not…

— Charlotte Rampling

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do…

— James Cagney

The whole process of acting is transformation. What is your power, quality and level of transformation, define you as an actor.

— Neeraj Kabi

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing…

— Jon Hamm

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to…

— Cate Blanchett

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100%…

— Debby Ryan

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel…

— Dylan McDermott

Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an…

— Elena Kampouris

Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his…

— George Eldon Ladd

Acting in particular is a fun job when you have a good script. I don't know about acting when you don't have…

— Bob Odenkirk

Coming from the Malayalam sets, when I went to Telugu, people told me that I wasn't acting and that it felt dead.…

— Raashi Khanna

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys…

— Rush Limbaugh

Because I came to acting quite late, I kind of think one of the few attributes that I do have is that…

— Liam Cunningham

I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said…

— Harshvardhan Rane

I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.

— Graham McTavish

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

— Ed Asner

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

— Adam McKay

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.

— Sam Lloyd

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

— Gary Busey

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

— Tom Cullen

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

— Dan Castellaneta

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

— Ellar Coltrane

The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.

— James Frain

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

— Beverley Mitchell

I dont recall ever deciding to pursue a career in acting.

— Lauren Cohan

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

— Nadine Velazquez

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

— Ashley Bell

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

— Francesca Annis

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

— Felicity Jones