Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred… — Eleanor Mondale
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island,… — Fred Melamed
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't… — Fred Melamed
I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting. — Hayley Mills
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies. — Hayley Mills
I got into the acting business very young. — James MacArthur
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn… — Allison Williams
Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very,… — Allison Williams
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. — Merritt Wever
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,… — John Malkovich
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy… — Olivia Williams
I didn't study acting. — Ray Walston
I do acting for the awards... and cash money. — Rebel Wilson
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test. — Samuel West
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe. — Kelly McGillis
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. — Uta Hagen
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. — John Hurt
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. — John Hurt
So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was… — James Earl Jones
I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business'… — Jennie Garth
For me, acting is doing. — Pierce Brosnan
An actor is only merchandise. — Chow Yun-Fat
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the… — Vincent D'Onofrio
You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't… — Minnie Driver

Who Wrote These Acting Quotes

2,890 authors contributed a total of 4,873 Acting Quotes, led by these top contributors: