Acting Quotes · Page 47

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

— River Phoenix

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

— Santigold

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

— Donald Sutherland

Acting in a heroine-oriented film is a tough job.

— Sangeetha Krish

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

— Ingrid Bergman

I always come back to acting.

— Bill Pullman

The less acting you have to do, the better, I think.

— Paul Dano

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

— James Lipton

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was…

— Gemma Arterton

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

— Mandy Patinkin

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

— Rainn Wilson

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

— Maggie Smith

I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.

— Shiri Appleby

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

— Allegra Versace

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

— Marlon Brando

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

— Bram Stoker

Acting is my passion but everyone was against it. But mom insisted that her daughter would do what she wanted, no matter…

— Divya Dutta

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it.…

— James W. Sire

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I…

— Dan Castellaneta

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going…

— Eliza Dushku

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed…

— Susan Mitchell

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was…

— Cole Sprouse

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally…

— Sanford Meisner

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a…

— Richard Griffiths

“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's…

— Sanford Meisner

And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie…

— Anonymous

When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate…

— Katharine Hayhoe

I've just been very excited that over the years I've constantly had those types of different experiences. I like staying a little…

— Rosario Dawson

One of the biggest breaks we had actually, one of the biggest, the hardest I laughed on the movie [The Hangover] was…

— Ed Helms

When I connect to my soul, project it into another # character , and then bring it to the stage or to…

— Kyra Sedgwick

I don't even know if acting's something I want to do the rest of my life. There's a lot of other things…

— Chris Demetral

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

— Raul Julia

Nothing happens until something moves.

— Albert Einstein

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

— Colm Wilkinson

I don't have a huge acting background at all.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

I never had an acting lesson.

— Sondra Locke

I believe acting is a director's medium completely.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I like everything about acting.

— Kevin Dillon

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

— Ron Perlman