Acting Quote by Alex Sharp

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

— Ginuwine

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

— Kumail Nanjiani

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what…

— Ben Affleck

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

— Meryl Streep

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself

— Ed Harris

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second…

— Kerry Bishe

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to…

— Sibel Kekilli

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't…

— Clifton Collins, Jr

I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them…

— Julianne Moore

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

— Dermot Mulroney

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put…

— Jonathan Groff

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day…

— Steven R. McQueen