Acting Quotes · Page 69

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

— Michael Keaton

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

— Kim Alexis

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

— David Crabb

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

— Meryl Streep

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.

— Pooja Bhatt

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

— John Leguizamo

When doing films, ones acting skills are polished, and the actor delivers a better performance.

— Gautam Rode

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because…

— Katherine Jenkins

I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous…

— Kelly Brook

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental…

— William H. Macy

Acting is a very weird job. But if you know you're an actor, you just have to do it. You can't do…

— Vanessa Kirby

I didn't have the privilege to enter the industry just because my father is Subhendu Chatterjee. I am nowhere near my father's…

— Saswata Chatterjee

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not…

— Maureen Lipman

Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I…

— Laura Prepon

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't,…

— Kit Harington

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum.…

— Barry Humphries

The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a…

— Bill Murray

I never watched Lost. I just thought it would be fun to be part of something that was such a big part…

— Allison Janney

I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get…

— Kevin Costner

Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there…

— Keanu Reeves

Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost…

— Thomas Sowell

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other…

— Kristen Stewart

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If…

— Lauren Bacall

When I entered the film industry, I didn't know anything about acting.

— Kirti Kulhari

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

— Simon Sinek

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

— Roddy McDowall

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

— Tim Robbins

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

— Megan Park

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

— Catherine Oxenberg

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

— Brenton Thwaites

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in…

— Rila Fukushima

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

— Michael Pena

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

— Diane Keaton

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

— Lance Reddick

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

— Erika Eleniak

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

— Queen Latifah