I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
“Sickness is a benign rehearsal for death. With luck, some other understudy will go on in your stead before your final bow… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene… — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I love comedy. I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way. I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally,… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me… — George C. Scott Copy Share Image
There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Even now while I'm acting on Broadway, I find myself saying things like, 'Well I'm not REALLY an actor, I'm more of… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at… — Tamala Jones Copy Share Image
Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions.… — Michael Clarke Duncan Copy Share Image
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
For the first six years of my career, I was relegated to those girl-next-door, sweet, cheerleader kind of roles, and it was… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting… — Piper Laurie Copy Share Image
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Ive thought about quitting acting, but I love what I do so much, its the big conundrum of my life. So Im… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare… — Dave Legeno Copy Share Image
“...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into… — Morfydd Clark Copy Share Image
I had been acting since I was a kid. I had done 35 plays in New York before 'Serious Man,' but you… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I love acting. Anchoring and dancing have come to me because of acting. I came here to be an actor. All others… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me and I don't know if it is something… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
You'd think that my acting in 'Lost Angels' would have been the reason why I gave up on it. But yeah, I'm… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting,… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image