Acting Quotes

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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go… — John Cleese
The only failure is not to try. — George Clooney
Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting. — George Clooney
An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have… — George Clooney
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want… — George Clooney
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working. — Kirstie Alley
Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor. — Glenn Close
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. — Kurt Cobain
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. — Paul Thomas Anderson
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if… — Paulo Coelho
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting,… — Summer Altice
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic… — Loni Anderson
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that. — Jennifer Aniston
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be… — Jennifer Aniston
Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be. — Jennifer Aniston
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting. — Francesca Annis
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,… — Thomas Malthus
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until… — Stephen Covey
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity....… — Lewis Thomas
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. — Cynthia Heimel

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