Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from.… — Mark Wahlberg
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. — Shailene Woodley
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something… — Shailene Woodley
For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting.… — Shailene Woodley
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist. — Dwight Yoakam
That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an… — Will Ferrell
I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent… — Jen Kirkman
I'm acting with the best actors in the world. — Jeremy Piven
To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'. — Smiley Blanton
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting… — Harriet Rubin
Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting. — Richard Pascale
I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going… — Kristanna Loken
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place.… — Melanie Lynskey
The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it… — Melanie Lynskey
The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working. — Melanie Lynskey
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic… — Mike Leigh
I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling. — Nastia Liukin
I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those… — Nia Long
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of… — Nicholas Lea
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine. — Samuel Larsen
I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up… — Wendy Liebman
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was… — Aasif Mandvi
For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well. — Anson Mount
When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class. — Beau Mirchoff

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