Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh,… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop,… — Jay Kinney Copy Share Image
Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I love acting, I love what we do. It's so bloody silly at times, isn't it? It's like playing dress-up, and other… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I think I started to see that acting was a really great catharsis for me. I've always been really creative and artistic,… — Bethany Joy Galeotti Copy Share Image
I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I mean, acting or stunts, doing my job means doing my job, and I'm loving it. It's fun to put my face… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
In his apology, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was sorry to the women that he groped, and he admitted that he had acted… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I've met a lot of people, interacted with them, and experienced a lot of things in my life that I try to… — Kwak Dong-yeon Copy Share Image
I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny,… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age,… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
My first paid acting gig in the States was playing a lizard-transforming, shape-shifting witch in 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', I believe. — Stephanie Corneliussen Copy Share Image
Your body - or my body - is just kind of stupid. Like, your body doesn't know whether you're acting something because… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things… — Nolan Sotillo Copy Share Image
You have to like a song, take in all you can and sync it. Be it a sad song or a dappakuthu… — KK Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who have nothing to do with the acting profession and they really liked seeing a woman… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
'Stomp the Yard' was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It's the reason I live in Atlanta to… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
![“I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy…” quote by Brie Larson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/909/brie-larson-9823_acting_i-had-started-acting-when-i-was-7-and-i_2223272.jpg)
