Acting Quotes · Page 85

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

— Manoj Bajpayee

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

— Michael Shurtleff

I had a chance to do acting again, and, I don't know, this has always been my plan of what I wanted…

— Ashley Thomas

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

— Victoria Pratt

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

— Tod Machover

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

— Adrian Pasdar

I have enjoyed acting, but getting into production is hectic. I am not made for it.

— Ayesha Takia

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

— Melissa Leo

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been…

— Wallace Shawn

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do…

— Zachary Quinto

Even acting in 'Master of None' or 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody,' when I was a kid, I never ever thought that…

— Naomi Ackie

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop…

— Malcolm Gladwell

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good…

— George Clooney

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much…

— Helen Slater

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends…

— Rick Warren

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every…

— Jason Isaacs

I just figured it out when I was approaching the age where teenagers forced to make major life decisions and I just…

— Nell Hudson

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere,…

— David Mamet

For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have…

— Betsy Brandt

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life…

— Elizabeth Mitchell

Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing…

— Martin Landau

There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the…

— Jay Mohr

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend…

— Cory Monteith

As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more…

— Nicky Jam

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

— Alison Lohman

I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.

— Colin Farrell

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

— Hill Harper

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

— Andrew Scott

I'd rather concentrate on making my character more convincing than trying to prove my acting prowess.

— Atul Kulkarni

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

— Elia Kazan

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

— Mia Wasikowska

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

— Alfred Lunt

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

— Peter Fonda

Election security is national security, and we have to start acting like it.

— Amy Klobuchar

After 'Amen' people started recognising me. It made me think that acting is better than direction.

— Joy Mathew

Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

— Janine Turner

When Take That came around my band had just come to an end and I was settling into acting life.

— Martin Kemp

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

— John Cleese

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

— Michael Clarke Duncan