Acting Quotes · Page 82

Yale was my first audition. I say this to say I was a baby. I knew nothing of acting.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

— Roger Moore

I loved music, acting, and drama, but these weren't something I pursued until I was 19.

— Katherine Langford

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

— Frank Vincent

Actually I love acting in commercials and I see no shame in that.

— Alexander Ovechkin

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

— Vincent de Paul

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

— Eamon de Valera

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do…

— Christa Campbell

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a…

— Maura Tierney

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when…

— Javed Jaffrey

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a…

— Disha Patani

I think my best acting is always when I have one or two people to get really intimate and friendly with off…

— Paul Walter Hauser

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If I wasn't acting, I would want to be in the food and restaurant business. I really love to cook and am…

— Lana Condor

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look…

— Tom Wilkinson

Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City,…

— David Cassidy

When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be…

— Lewis Carroll

I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it…

— Jake Epstein

A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts…

— Laurence Olivier

To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to…

— Isabelle Huppert

Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live…

— Robert Fulghum

I always feel secure. I can't be a pure actor if I feel insecure. I can't let other things take over my…

— Rajkummar Rao

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do…

— Bailee Madison

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

— Morris Chestnut

'Teen Wolf' ending is, like, huge. I know no acting without the show, basically.

— Dylan O'Brien

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

I love to cook; I love to bake. It's, like, my favorite thing besides acting.

— Danielle Rose Russell

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

— Todd Haynes

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

— Jodie Comer

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

— Anonymous

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

— Lauren Bacall

From an acting point of view you need to look at what you're bringing in.

— Emily Berrington

There's definitely something about the acting that's the most fun.

— Julie Davis

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

— Yara Shahidi

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

— Lauren Conrad

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

— Sanford Meisner

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

— Harry Hamlin