Acting Quotes · Page 73

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

— Pierce Brosnan

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

— Ben Kingsley

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

— Kay Kay Menon

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

— George C. Scott

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

— Kevin McKidd

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

— Paul Feig

I got kind of obsessed from a very young age about musicals and costumes and acting.

— Naomi Ackie

I want to do music, film, acting - all of that kind of stuff.

— Chi Chi DeVayne

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on…

— Daniel Radcliffe

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

— Michael Caine

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium…

— John Dewey

Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach…

— Boyd Holbrook

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so…

— Glenda Jackson

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from…

— C. S. Lewis

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script…

— Laurence Fishburne

I still think acting is something that you're born with and I think the greatest actors today, they don't need training, it…

— Sistine Stallone

When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.…

— Nick Offerman

No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation,…

— Morgan Freeman

If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy…

— Melissa Benoist

I think because I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than…

— Sam Mendes

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also…

— Christina Ricci

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone…

— Fred Melamed

There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to…

— Scott Cohen

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

— Sterling K. Brown

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

— Elvis Presley

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

— Emilia Clarke

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

— Vincent de Paul

My husband is an actor, and we don't talk about acting at home.

— Nicola Walker

My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

— Meital Dohan

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

— James Earl Jones

America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.

— Anthony Scaramucci

It makes me very happy to see the enthusiasm that youngsters have these days to pursue acting.

— Himani Shivpuri

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

— Taryn Manning

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

— Bill Fagerbakke

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

— Lalaine

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

— Pam Dawber

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

— Balachandra Menon

My acting career had ups and downs. It's been a mix of everything.

— Zayed Khan