Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

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
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a… — Genevieve Bujold
I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent — Julie Christie
My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about. — Joaquin Phoenix
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life. — Chris Tucker
Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about. — Martin Freeman
I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a… — Saffron Burrows
Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion. — Marilyn Monroe
I have two acting styles: with and without a horse. — Robert Mitchum
These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime. — Robert Mitchum
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting — Julie Christie
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. — Casey Wilson
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. — Eric Bogosian
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. — Eric Bogosian

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