Acting Quote by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to…

— Joanne Woodward

I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If…

— Ethan Hawke

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort…

— Michael Gambon

I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I…

— Blake Lively

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you…

— Skeet Ulrich

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

— David Canary

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

— Paul Newman

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the…

— Patton Oswalt

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to…

— Mara Wilson

When we were kids, the work we did wasn't about acting. It was about pleasing people and making kids smile.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Kids are supposed to have fun. They're supposed to do something that they like to do, because they don't have to worry about paying…

— Elijah Wood