Acting Quotes · Page 83

Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!

— Sanford Meisner

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

— Evelyn Underhill

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and…

— Lili Taylor

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

— Tasha Smith

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

— Kristian Nairn

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

— Samuel Larsen

During my college days, I was known more for my dancing than for acting.

— Shakti Mohan

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

— Ice T

I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever.…

— Pierce Brosnan

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like…

— Eileen Atkins

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus.…

— Emun Elliott

I felt so ashamed of my modeling history when I first got into acting, so I tried to hide that part of…

— Camila Morrone

People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get…

— Tabu

Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level…

— Yvette Mimieux

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to…

— Cindy Margolis

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I…

— James Franco

I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a…

— Ed McCabe

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as…

— Nicolas Cage

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you…

— John Leguizamo

God inspired me, because I was blessed with the knowledge that I wanted to do this. And my mother supported it. She…

— Martin Lawrence

When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and…

— Miles Teller

I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked…

— Judd Nelson

If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting…

— Michael Ellsberg

I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to…

— Don Ameche

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

— Paul Mooney

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

— Russell Hornsby

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

— Juliette Binoche

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

— Fawad Khan

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

— Ray Winstone

I'm a very simple and calm man, but when the camera is switched on, acting begins.

— Nana Patekar

When you are acting in a film, you are only worried about your performance and how the film will shape up.

— Atul Kulkarni

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

— Martin Freeman

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

— Ivan Reitman

It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.

— Anushka Sharma

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

— Felicity Jones

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

— Charles Churchill

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

— David Ayer

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

— Shia LaBeouf