Acting Quote by Bill Hader

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

— Leighton Meester

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

— Thomas Gibson

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

— Anna Paquin

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities…

— J. D. Salinger

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

— Kristen Stewart

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs…

— John Lithgow

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

— Paul Feig

Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad…

— Beth Grant

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing…

— Agnes Moorehead

I don't have any theories about acting, and I don't think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn't take himself too…

— James Garner

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

— Crystal Bowersox

Acting is acting.

— Brent Spiner