Acting Quotes

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I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my… — Jessica Simpson
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak… — Edward Norton
People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which… — Jessica Chastain
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get… — Jessica Chastain
It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my… — Jessica Chastain
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work… — Elizabeth Pena
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I… — Peter O'Toole
I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared. — Ursula Andress
I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing. — Jim Gaffigan
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know… — Scott Bakula
I had to study acting to basically educate myself. — Boris Kodjoe
I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting. — Donald Sutherland
I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting. — Piper Perabo
Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. — Michael Madsen
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. — Ralph Richardson
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too. — Regina King
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off… — Alec Baldwin
Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up. — Paul Giamatti
I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it. — Paul Giamatti
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. — Paul Giamatti

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