I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
I was modeling while I was in university and my agency said, 'There's this fashion campaign, can you go?' And I didn't… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
TV is longer form, and that's sometimes a positive, and sometimes a more challenging thing. As an actor, you want to be… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
I had a guy come up to me once and say, You suck! The last movie you did was terrible'. So I… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world,… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man.… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project,… — Jon Seda Copy Share Image
Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
To me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration. It's maybe hard to believe, but as… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
There is a group of us that met through Howard Klein's class in Los Angeles. Howard Klein is a prominent acting teacher.… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from… — Joseph Chaikin Copy Share Image
I've been doing some acting, writing classes, and taking a holistic approach so I can actually be good at this craft. But… — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do:… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus… — Marjo-Riikka Makela Copy Share Image
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I never dreamed about being on a hit television series. I've never really related my dreams to that specific of a work… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
Actually, acting in bumper cars is terrible, because the really only way to film it and get a close up is to… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over… — Genevieve Bujold Copy Share Image
There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
![“As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my…” quote by Julie Benz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8b/julie-benz-7666_acting_as-an-actor-it-made-me-realize-a-really_1404313.jpg)
![“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the…” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/939/andy-serkis-1548_acting_animators-do-amazing-working-translating_1303787.jpg)
![“The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he…” quote by Joseph Chaikin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/joseph-chaikin-250366_able_the-great-actor-is-able-to-approach-in-h_1364762.png)
