Acting Quotes · Page 22

You can sleep when you're dead.

— Captain Barbossa

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

— Robert Redford

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

— Debra Stephenson

While acting is a passion, hosting is fun.

— Varun Sharma

Do the thing and you will have the power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acting is my career. I am pursuing it with passion.

— Priyamani

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

— Meister Eckhart

You see, I've never really studied acting.

— Diana Ross

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

— Rufus Sewell

I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.

— Adi Shankar

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

— Sarah Rafferty

Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

— Jason Flemyng

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

— Ralph Richardson

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

— Claire Foy

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

— John Carney

Lead by example. Women often wait for permission instead of acting, and I try to encourage bold action.

— Belinda Johnson

It's so extremely funny when people try to be cool around certain people.. And they are just embarrassing themselfs..

— Jasmine

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other…

— Otto Preminger

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't…

— Peter Gallagher

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating…

— Queen Latifah

The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our…

— Jerzy Grotowski

That's the joy of acting, to bring something to it. That's what makes acting exciting. Just saying lines is not terribly exciting.

— Lorne Greene

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like…

— Alec Baldwin

It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one.…

— Judy Holliday

Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a…

— Matt Ross

Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the…

— Jimmy Fallon

A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera,…

— Virginia Madsen

I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change…

— Michael Bloomberg

When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a…

— Natasha Rothwell

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be…

— Preity Zinta

I want to try directing too, whenever that comes. I have a book that I'm interested in, and I possibly want to…

— Josh Hutcherson

The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of…

— Leonard Read

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

— Sammo Hung

I always hated acting but I kept on acting.

— Sterling Hayden

Acting is a very strange job.

— Lena Olin

There is no right in acting.

— Frank Langella

I'd definitely like to do some more film acting.

— Francesca Hayward

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

— Emmylou Harris

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

— Danica McKellar

Strong reasons make strong actions.

— William Shakespeare