Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of… — James Spader
I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting. — Tiffani Thiessen
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds. — Aubrey Plaza
A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I… — Ryan Phillippe
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me. — Keke Palmer
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't… — Peter Mullan
I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to… — David Suchet
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor.… — David Suchet
Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage. — Adam Driver
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable,… — Eddie Redmayne
I don't remember ever not knowing about acting. — Jennifer Grey
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and… — Jim Carrey
High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be… — Jodi Sweetin
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed! — Abigail Breslin
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. — Loni Anderson
I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don't want… — Sophia Myles
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' — Miles Teller
I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it. — Geraldine Chaplin
It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home.… — Robert Duvall
Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with… — Robert Duvall
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but… — Robert Duvall
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. — Christina Ricci
Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set.… — Danny Masterson
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of… — Joan Collins

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