Acting Quotes · Page 86

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

— Shirley Knight

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

— Adam Driver

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

There is an acting gene that has been passed down to me by my parents. It's nature, not nurture.

— Alice Eve

All I care about is doing good acting and being judged on that.

— Nicola Coughlan

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

— Katie Chang

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

— Heath Ledger

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

— Mark Ruffalo

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea.…

— Linda Hunt

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has…

— Erich Fromm

My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

— Olivia Cooke

I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get…

— Rachel Weisz

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether…

— Gabourey Sidibe

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the…

— Rajiv Menon

The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as…

— Tina Fey

Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of…

— Andre Simon

What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back…

— Baron d'Holbach

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell…

— Ben Kingsley

I was originally an actor, and then I started to write. One of the most frustrating things about acting was that it…

— Sean Mathias

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch…

— Tracy Morgan

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies…

— Jared Diamond

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up…

— Kathy Baker

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force…

— Jerry Doyle

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

— Craig MacDonald

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

— Daphne Zuniga

I have developed my own brand of acting, and fortunately, people like it.

— Fawad Khan

You see so many actors branching out into so many different things than just acting. It's so fantastic.

— Ayesha Takia

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

— Varun Sandesh

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

— Scotty McCreery

Besides acting, writing has been my passion for a long time.

— Antara Mali

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

— Sarah Chalke

“Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.”

— Christina Westover

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.

— Jamie Carragher

I like to read people's gestures and implement them into my acting.

— Deepti Naval

Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.

— Allu Arjun

My favourite thing about acting is I didn't have to choose a career, I get to do an infinite amount.

— Monica Barbaro

I really like 'Wannabe' from Itzy, because being a 'wannabe' means acting different than who you really are.

— Dahyun

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

— Barry Keoghan