Acting Quotes · Page 135

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

— Bob the Drag Queen

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

— Michael Welch

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

— Jill Hennessy

I collect hobbies. Acting is just another thing to add to the list, I guess.

— Evan Mock

I definitely would like to embark on acting, give it a shot, you know maybe that's my calling, maybe it's not.

— Fabolous

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

— William Hazlitt

After 'Bulbul' released, I've been getting very good acting offers.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

— James Purefoy

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about…

— Nick Offerman

I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made…

— Will Arnett

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can…

— Kurt Fuller

I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this…

— Gene Weingarten

“Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

— George Washington

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support…

— David Soul

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's…

— Hannibal Buress

I just went along for the ride. It was a God-given gift. It is. So you can't say well, you wasted your…

— Angela Lansbury

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters…

— Jill Scott

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of…

— Rob Lowe

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my…

— Evangeline Lilly

I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you…

— Katie Leung

It's not really an easier racket than acting is. For some reason, I guess it had - the rejection of an illustrator's…

— Michael Emerson

“You say you're just acting, but you're fracturing yourself into a thousand pieces, and every time I see another piece, you're gone…

— Mindy Mejia

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

— Dane DeHaan

I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it.

— Joe Lycett

I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.

— Adrianne Palicki

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

— Armaan Malik

All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.

— Katherine Waterston

I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

— Richard Kind

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

— Ethel Barrymore

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

— Anonymous

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

— Christina Milian

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

— Catherine Deneuve

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

— Jeremy London

Acting is the opposite of running away. It illuminates something.

— Taylor Russell

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

— Jeffrey Combs

Acting is something I have always wanted to do, and now I will be able to pursue it.

— Sable

Fifteen years old, out in the world, acting was all I had.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

— Barbra Streisand