Acting Quotes · Page 50

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

— Krysten Ritter

I will become a more mature actor and it's one of my dreams to teach acting as well.

— Joo Won

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

— James Denton

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

— Antony Sher

“Our life was an inept play with some disproportionately good acting in it.”

— William Gerhardie

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

— Aziz Ansari

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

— Lea Thompson

I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second.…

— Veronica Roth

My mom was a great influence on my life. A real encourager in terms of acting because she was an avid reader…

— Al Pacino

'Masoom' was like a picnic for all of us. We kids just wanted to have fun acting in the film. We never…

— Urmila Matondkar

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I…

— Bill Hader

I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to…

— Miranda Otto

I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration…

— Ron Perlman

It's self-destructive to become confident regarding your own acting. Acting, your entire career depends on a lot of things. What kind of…

— Jitendra Kumar

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's…

— Nick Robinson

There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make…

— Rowan Blanchard

I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What…

— James Caan

What I discovered with acting is that you step out of your own personal life and you connect with characters that are…

— Travis Aaron Wade

I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe…

— Christie Laing

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and…

— Karl Urban

Even though Donald Trump has won, even though Hillary Clinton has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat…

— Rush Limbaugh

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who…

— Ilka Chase

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

— Greg Wise

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

— Christina Ricci

Cinema has given me everything in life, and I will continue acting till the end.

— Mohanlal

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

— Federico Fellini

It really was a true test to try to act for 14-hour days when people don't think that you're acting.

— Desi Lydic

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

— Roger Ebert

Appearing in 'Death in Paradise' was my very first time acting in English.

— Josephine Jobert

I've been building a future for myself outside of acting.

— Joe Penny

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

— Helen Mirren

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

— Neal Brennan

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

— James Mangold

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

— Colin Morgan

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

— Charles Grodin

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

— Masi Oka

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

— Alicia Vikander

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

— Dylan O'Brien