Acting Quotes · Page 56

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

— Jayma Mays

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

— Justin Theroux

Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.

— James Cosmo

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

— Ester Dean

“If you're acting, you're wasting your time. If you're not, you're wasting mine.”

— Mommie Dearest

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

— Theo Rossi

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

— Roger Allam

Like they say: The acting is for free. I get paid to wait.

— Leighton Meester

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also…

— Sierra McCormick

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine…

— Will Kemp

I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an…

— Zoe Bell

I've had the struggling actor experience. At one point in New York, I was holding four jobs, including bottle service girl, while…

— Teyonah Parris

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've…

— Rupert Graves

I started dancing at age three and then got involved in musical theatre and acting around age seven. I think I've probably…

— Tiya Sircar

But, my passion is acting and I want to follow it. I want to be an actor who inspires people and breaks…

— Harnaaz Sandhu

When I started bodybuilding, I began acting classes at the same time, so as I was feeling more confident in myself, I…

— Katy O'Brian

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or…

— Anne Lamott

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had…

— Quinn Shephard

I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or…

— James Pearse Connelly

I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry -…

— Colin Baker

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me. I think what goes into my work is everything beforehand that…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in…

— Dallas Campbell

I had a guy come up to me once and say, You suck! The last movie you did was terrible'. So I…

— Sam Worthington

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

— Jimmy Butler

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

— Nicole Maines

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

— John Corbett

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

— Roger Allam

If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

— Mandy Moore

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

— Paulo Coelho

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

— Anonymous

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

— Diana Silvers

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

— David Walton

Acting is a way of hiding, but hiding in another skin as a male person was exhausting.

— Rebecca Root

I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.

— Enrico Colantoni

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

— Kim Coates

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

— Christopher Gorham

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

— Sophocles

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

— Big Sean

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

— Li Bingbing