Acting Quotes

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Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about… — Dannii Minogue
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all… — Dennis Hopper
When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me… — Jensen Ackles
Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's… — Michael Gambon
I am coming to the end of acting.Â I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of… — Jessica Lange
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons -… — Chris Sarandon
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs… — Sam Shepard
I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You… — Clifton Collins, Jr.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead
It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing… — Nicholas Hoult
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's… — Courtney Love
I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my… — Jack Black
To me acting and singing are worlds apart. — Emmylou Harris
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real. — Laurence Olivier
Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession. — Michael Caine
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class… — Aaron Paul
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously. — Judy Holliday
I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was… — Judy Holliday
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don't… — Genevieve Bujold
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. — Genevieve Bujold

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