My mom wanted me to study medicine. But it was not easy to become a doctor in those days, and I became… — Manorama Copy Share Image
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my… — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn… — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you. — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
I definitely devote so much more time to acting, but since it only takes a day or two to shoot and get… — Hero Fiennes-Tiffin Copy Share Image
Most of my friends who have done well financially, from television series and investments, are still insecure about acting. They don't need… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I… — Sophia Takal Copy Share Image
Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on.… — Genie Francis Copy Share Image
I didn't have a list of dos and don'ts when I started acting, but one thing was very clear that I would… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character… — Meaghan Jette Martin Copy Share Image
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I walked away from acting for eight years and tried to make the choice that I should have made when I was… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty… — Stromae Copy Share Image
I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I don't really want to do movies, but I tried. I don't feel like acting is my thing; I think music is… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see… — Ewen Bremner Copy Share Image
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
I never planned my career in the film industry, in acting. Yes, I always liked acting, but never ever I thought it… — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Being an actress isnt as fun as it may seem. If I dont love something, I stop doing it. I dont love… — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
![“Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.’” quote by Jennifer Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/jennifer-lawrence-1354_acting_not-to-sound-rude-but-acting-is-stupid-e_1385240.jpg)
