Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we… — Timothy Dalton
To me acting originally became an extension of game playing. — Hugo Weaving
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones.… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for… — Helen Mirren
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I… — Andrew Scott
One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important. — Andrew Scott
There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh. — Lupita Nyong'o
Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult. — Emily Osment
It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting. — Val Kilmer
A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible… — Val Kilmer
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the… — Ginger Rogers
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby. — Mara Wilson
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany… — Mara Wilson
I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was… — Mara Wilson
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few… — Mara Wilson
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant. — Mara Wilson
I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions. — Abhishek Bachchan
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience. — Adam Driver
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most… — Adam Driver
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people. — Adam Driver
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting. — Adam Driver
I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. — Adam Driver
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself. — Adam Driver
I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress. — Elsa Lanchester
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you… — Billy Campbell

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