Acting Quotes · Page 140

I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.

— Nana Patekar

“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

— Stewart Stafford

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

— Taylor Lautner

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

— Danny Bonaduce

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

— Norman Vincent Peale

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

— Veronica Roth

As a child, I was mischievous and an attention-seeker, so acting came naturally to me.

— Paresh Rawal

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

I'm a very happy, content private person. Even when I was acting before I got hurt I never had a publicist, I…

— Ken Wahl

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— Bonnie Gillespie

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice…

— Katie Lowes

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between…

— Walter Lippmann

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the…

— Shweta Menon

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse…

— Marlon Brando

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I…

— Mira Sorvino

I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things…

— John Noble

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name…

— Thomas Merton

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other…

— Jeremy Irons

When a black person is acting up or showing off, somebody might say she's 'wilin' out.' In sports, an athlete who really…

— Wesley Morris

In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into…

— James Franco

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold…

— Anonymous

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on…

— Marion Cotillard

Soaps are really like boot camp for acting. You learn about the industry, you learn about being on stage, and you learn…

— Michael Graziadei

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said,…

— Josie Loren

Yes, I am a very greedy actor. I love acting, and I want to do all kinds of roles.

— Bhumi Pednekar

There's no real talent involved in modeling. Acting has substance.

— Amber Heard

Acting on TV is ruled out. I admire those who do it, but I found it quite strenuous.

— Hema Malini

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

— Sophie Marceau

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

— Jessica Pare

I really do love acting, and it does come very naturally to me. I think I'll be able to succeed.

— Julia Fox

I've never looked at acting like a job. It's never been like that.

— Kathryn Newton

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year,

— David Alan Grier

Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.

— George Eads

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

— Linda Cardellini

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

— Ella Purnell

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

— Simon Bird

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Acting is a bit like cycling. Once youve got the hang of it, you just peddle on.

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.

— Joie Lee

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

— Saoirse Ronan