Acting Quote by Christina Ricci

Sometimes acting, particularly in film, can feel so contained. You need to be small and not overplay things, so it's such a relief to…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real…

— Jay Baruchel

I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's taken me…

— Phoebe Fox

When I'm onstage doing standup, no one yells "Cut!" or tells me what to do. I'm DeRay, and I use my own words. With…

— DeRay Davis

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really…

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

— Ian Mckellen

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole…

— Shelley Winters

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece…

— Alia Shawkat

If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can…

— Hugh Grant

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

— Chris Klein

What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying life, and…

— Cress Williams