Acting Quote by Jonathan Bailey

The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others.

— Leigh Whannell

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

— Romola Garai

It is so cool having complete control over something because, with acting, it's words written by other people that you perform; you do something…

— Peyton List

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

— Nina Conti

I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see it all…

— Anthony Hopkins

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to…

— Taylor Schilling

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But…

— Aidan Turner

I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so…

— Max Minghella

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

— Napoleon Hill

I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as…

— Matt Bomer

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry…

— Sandra Bullock

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into…

— James Frain