Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you… — Tana French
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had… — Tana French
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to… — Tana French
That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have… — Albert Finney
I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can. — Anna Faris
Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills. — Ray Stevens
I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a… — Penny Marshall
Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help… — Spike Lee
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and… — John Stuart Mill
I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking… — Antonio Gramsci
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood… — Michael Marmot
I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the… — P.J. O'Rourke
Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed… — Anthony Giddens
Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing. — Jean-Louis Barrault
She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting. — George Burns
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. — Dennis Farina
You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool. — Jimmy Buffett
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part… — Jackie Cooper
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so… — Jackie Cooper
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I… — Jane Campion
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. — Jeffrey Combs
I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every… — Jeffrey Combs
Acting is such a weird job. — Michael Cera
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. — Rachel Dratch
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just… — Brendan Fehr

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