Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at… — Molly Ringwald
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying. — Tamsin Egerton
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there. — Tamsin Egerton
I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14. — Stephen Dorff
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to… — Ice T
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But… — Ice T
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people… — Chadwick Boseman
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact,… — Chadwick Boseman
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. — Tina Yothers
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the… — Morris Chestnut
I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's… — Charlie Rowe
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. — Natasha Lyonne
If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business. — Frank Cady
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire… — Alden Ehrenreich
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate. — Richard Gere
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling. — Richard Gere
I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time… — Ryan Kwanten
I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else. — Ryan Kwanten
Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium. — James Denton
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent. — Eva Mendes
My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something.… — Atticus Shaffer
It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have… — Rosalind Russell
I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing. — Stella Maeve
I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if… — Kerry Washington
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera. — Kerry Washington

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