Acting Quotes · Page 137

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

— William Shakespeare

You gotta love acting. It's really exciting and totally fun!

— Jamie Lynn Spears

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

— Katharine Hepburn

My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!

— Joey King

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

— Orson Scott Card

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

— James Roday

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

— Anonymous

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm actually thinking about acting lessons. If somebody says to me, 'You can be in the movies,' I'd be pretty happy.

— Joe Calzaghe

Acting is a passion, but I have been taking time off to direct once in a while because it helps me reinvent…

— Prakash Raj

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like…

— Andy Serkis

I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of…

— Shannon Woodward

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of…

— Julia Cameron

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really…

— Alec Baldwin

I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating…

— T.I

Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as…

— Cate Blanchett

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining.…

— Bojana Novakovic

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

I had success as an actor relatively early. When I was 22, I got nominated for an Academy Award for The Last…

— Jeff Bridges

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting…

— Jerry Bridges

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When I was in high school, they opened an arts high school. I didn't read music, and I wasn't a trained dancer,…

— Shalita Grant

People ask, "Do you enjoy acting?" But you only have those specific few hours to do a scene, and then you drive…

— Eddie Redmayne

It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a…

— John Lennon

I think good acting results when working together in a comfortable environment.

— Ji Chang-wook

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

— Seneca the Younger

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

— George Orwell

I grew up in a household that was very friendly towards the theatre and acting.

— Prunella Scales

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

— Arthur Smith

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

— Hayley Mills

I love the man with the coloured face in this pic his name is Kwon! <3 <3

— VIVAN

The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

— Caitriona Balfe

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

— Michael Jordan

In between acting, I'm still going to be doing modeling and different ventures.

— Karrueche Tran

“Your obvious need forattention and melodramatic acting sort of trumped my disfigurement.”

— Lindy Zart

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

— Phylicia Rashad

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

— Alan Tudyk

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

— Piper Perabo

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

— Charles Dickens

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

— Alan Ladd