Acting Quote by Lisa Edelstein

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

— Meryl Streep

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that…

— Danielle Campbell

A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really…

— Andie MacDowell

I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have…

— Peter Sarsgaard

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person,…

— Nathan Kress

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting…

— Max von Sydow

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into…

— Genevieve Bujold

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a…

— Malin Akerman

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

— Tom Cruise

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important…

— Stephen Lang

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden…

— Ben Whishaw

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical…

— Eddie Redmayne