Acting Quotes · Page 76

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

— Mary McCarthy

[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.

— Brent Spiner

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

— Scott Haze

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

— Mark Twain

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

— Pierce Brosnan

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

— Mike Colter

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

— Michael Shurtleff

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

— Evangeline Lilly

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work…

— Meryl Streep

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a…

— Eric Bana

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you…

— Jane Badler

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you…

— Olivier Martinez

In college I took an acting class as a joke. It sounded like something fun and easy at the time. I had…

— Michael Graziadei

I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act,…

— Mark Strickson

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

— Meryl Streep

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a…

— Jamie Chung

Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the…

— Constantin Stanislavski

There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are…

— Joan Blondell

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which…

— Sarah Silverman

Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in…

— Takeshi Kitano

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only…

— John Robinson

The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes…

— Joel Garreau

“Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or…

— Anne Carson

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy…

— David Brainerd

I will continue to do TV so long as I get to prove my acting prowess.

— Vikrant Massey

Acting is my passion. I can't see myself doing anything else.

— Samara Weaving

I enjoy acting in all kinds of roles; it's only that I don't get the time to do all what is offered…

— Dileesh Pothan

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

— Sean Penn

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

— Gillian Jacobs

People are acting like Keith Thurman has a cape like Superman and can fly.

— Danny Garcia

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.”

— Various attributed sources

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

— Robert Redford

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

— Jackie Evancho

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

— Edie McClurg

“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.”

— Graham Greene

I am working as BJP President in Delhi. I earn money by singing, acting, dancing etc. I have a brand value.

— Manoj Tiwari

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

— John Ratzenberger

I disliked people calling me a chocolate hero initially, as I wanted to explore other genres of acting.

— Bobby Deol