Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other… — William Shatner
A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself. — Matthew Lillard
I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity. — Ricky Gervais
I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working… — Steven Bauer
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here.… — Morgan Freeman
In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But… — Susan Sarandon
I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out… — Guy Pearce
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for… — Ian Mckellen
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was… — Patrick Stewart
I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a… — Katheryn Winnick
I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together.… — Charlie Day
For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly… — Matthew Lillard
The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you. No matter how… — Matthew Lillard
The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard… — Anjelica Huston
Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD. — John Waters
Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I… — Joan Juliet Buck
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things… — Anjelica Huston
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of… — Cathy Rigby
I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good. — Tommy Wiseau
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting. — Tommy Wiseau
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled… — David Mamet
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan
That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting… — Malcolm Gladwell
I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame. — Randeep Hooda

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