Acting Quote by Anthony Hopkins

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

— Anna Chlumsky

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I wasn't good at anything at school, and acting was the only thing that I really loved doing and was interested in. It was…

— Will Poulter

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

— Joe Manganiello

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in…

— Sherman Hemsley

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was…

— Mariel Hemingway

I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved…

— Karl Urban

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

— Charlie Korsmo

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

— Mayim Bialik