Acting Quotes · Page 93

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

— Allan Carr

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

— Jemima Kirke

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

— Wentworth Miller

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

— La La Anthony

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

— Amanda Seyfried

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

— George Burns

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

— Mia Goth

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

— Mel Gibson

You know, my endeavour is to blend into the larger picture. That was one of the strengths of my acting in 'Monsoon…

— Shefali Shah

I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things…

— Sophie Okonedo

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to…

— Ruth Wilson

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

— Miles Davis

I always wanted to be an actress, but my parents were adamant that I complete my studies first before I take up…

— Keerthy Suresh

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out…

— Disha Patani

I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my…

— Dascha Polanco

Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental'…

— Murray Rothbard

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College…

— Jenna Ushkowitz

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected…

— Adelaide Kane

I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We…

— Robert Loggia

Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I…

— Ray Stevenson

It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that…

— Yvonne Strahovski

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get…

— Michael Shurtleff

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I guess voice acting is just fun, interesting to say...but it is.

— Ashly Burch

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

— John Hurt

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

— Eddie Marsan

Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration... it's mentally draining.

— Mike Colter

When I was born, mom wasn't doing films at all, so I was never exposed that much to the world of acting.

— Soha Ali Khan

It's funny: the older I get, the more I can pick out when people are acting.

— Will Forte

“The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.”

— Stella Adler

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

— Noel Coward

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

— Edie Falco

I actually didn't learn about acting until I moved to America, eventually met Bert Knapp and studied with him.

— Christina Pickles

I have been into acting and direction, but choreography is my first love.

— Prabhu Deva

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

— Tom Ellis

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

— Sanya Malhotra

Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting.

— Christopher Jackson

I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

— David Morse