Acting Quotes · Page 54

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

— Adrien Brody

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

— Viola Davis

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

— Victoria Justice

I don't want to just do any acting role that comes just for the sake of getting in a film.

— Jay Sean

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

— Jane Badler

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

— John Boyega

Basically, acting is my love, and whatever I get to do within that scope is interesting to me.

— Sanjay Mishra

I have the confidence to stay in my acting career for a long time because I have done all the titles other…

— Joo Won

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very…

— Venus Williams

In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about…

— Joely Fisher

I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other…

— Kat Dennings

Acting began as a casual thing, but along the way, I did films like 'Happy Days,' '100% Love,' and 'Baahubali' that made…

— Tamannaah

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process -…

— Ethan Hawke

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more…

— Lacey Chabert

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator…

— Jenna Elfman

What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me…

— Julie Anne Peters

I was attached to star in a project that was going to be an unbelievable character piece, to be showcased all over…

— Jonathan Keltz

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I…

— Keanu Reeves

If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive.…

— Hugh Grant

People think that unless you become the de-glam girl, who has horrible things happening to her, you're not really acting; all it…

— Taapsee Pannu

I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that…

— Kristin Lehman

It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you…

— Markus Zusak

“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy.…

— Chila Woychik

My favourite compliment now is that people are talking about my acting, my craft - not my torso.

— Ricky Whittle

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

— Marie Windsor

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

— Rebecca Hall

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

— Patrick Fugit

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

— Nicolas Cage

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

— George Sanders

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

— Aaron Carter

The thing that I am most passionate about would be acting.

— Elizabeth Tan

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

— Annette Bening

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

— Henry Cavill

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

— Chunky Pandey

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

— Bill Burr

I was very young when I began acting and I really got by on enthusiasm and love of the profession.

— Zhao Wei

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

— Anna Deavere Smith

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

— Ewan McGregor