Acting Quotes · Page 98

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

— Edward Norton

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

— Joanne Whalley

Only when a film comes along that I really believe in like this one will I turn to acting.

— Sterling Hayden

A lot of acting projects and endorsement opportunities are coming my way.

— Sable

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

— Brett Dennen

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper…

— George Soros

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself…

— Jimmy Cliff

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in…

— Howard Thompson

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting.…

— Anna Camp

People wrote me off when I joined the industry, my looks were criticised, my acting was slammed, my films didn't do well.…

— Suniel Shetty

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.

— Milana Vayntrub

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is…

— Richard Hornby

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I…

— Michael B. Jordan

I do write, I enjoy it. But I like acting. I wanna be in front of the camera as much as I…

— Rob Riggle

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in…

— Laozi

“I resolved to never again be unprepared for the shit hitting the fan. I would pay attention to small things—the way people…

— Barry Eisler

As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must…

— Louise Rennison

My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino,…

— Ashley Judd

...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii…

— Naomi Wolf

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical…

— Sam Heughan

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

— Thomas Hanna

I've always been interested in acting because I acted before I did singing.

— Jay Sean

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

— Penn Jillette

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

— Song Joong-ki

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

— Aya Cash

I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

— Na Hae Ryeong

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

— John Leguizamo

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

— Anonymous

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

— Crystal Bowersox

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

— Joan Allen

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

— Josh Hartnett

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

— Joan Rivers

I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.

— Nicola Walker

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

— Kathrine Narducci

Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

— Daniella Alonso

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

— Eli Wallach