Acting Quotes

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Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want… — Max Irons
With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act… — Max Irons
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in… — Michael Imperioli
To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted.… — Michael Imperioli
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing. — Michael Ironside
I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet. — Angus T. Jones
What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a… — Angus T. Jones
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so… — Felicity Jones
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate… — David Johansen
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work… — Derek Jacobi
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place. — Famke Janssen
I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more… — LL Cool J
I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four… — LL Cool J
Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well. — Michael B. Jordan
I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course… — Norah Jones
In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a… — Terrence J
Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences. — Chris Klein
That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me. — Fran Kranz
I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles… — Jemima Kirke
I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an… — Joanna Kerns
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought.… — David Krumholtz
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. — John Mahoney
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll… — John Mahoney
And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film.… — Josie Maran
That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I… — Kent McCord

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