Acting Quotes · Page 58

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

— Vic Mignogna

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

— Charlie Hunnam

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

— Tom Hooper

I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

— Patti Harrison

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

— Stella Adler

When I told my dad about my decision to take up acting, he supported me in every possible way. He's very proud…

— Shaheer Sheikh

I came up with the Vic Reeves character for a stage project and people presume that's my name, even when I do…

— Vic Reeves

I took one acting class as an undergrad, and I loved it. I was in a very avant-garde play at UCLA about…

— Maz Jobrani

The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of…

— Gail Bradbrook

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate…

— Aristotle

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what…

— Hattie Morahan

When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll…

— Nicola Walker

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot…

— Larry Hagman

Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be…

— Chuka Umunna

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it…

— Isabella Rossellini

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero,…

— Rupert Murdoch

I wasn't especially a Broadway type. I liked film acting better. I didn't want to stay up late. I wasn't a smoker,…

— P. J. Soles

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we…

— Laura Schlessinger

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

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

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

— Josh O'Connor

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

— Wallace Shawn

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

— Todd Rundgren

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

— Sinqua Walls

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

— Laurence Fishburne

We want to see football. If people want to see acting, they go somewhere else, not the stadium.

— Lothar Matthaus

For as long as I can remember, my acting crush has been Meryl Streep.

— Constance Zimmer

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

— Adelaide Clemens

It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with.

— Roman Polanski

My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.

— Vijay Deverakonda

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

— Charlotte Rampling

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

— Chris Noth

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

— Marisa Tomei

“[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?”

— Laurence Olivier

Before I turned my attention to acting and writing I was a model.

— Keeley Hazell

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

— Benjamin Stockham