Acting Quote by Mary Lynn Rajskub

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I…

— Charlie Day

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to…

— Joan Allen

I guess I did a couple of things when I was a kid, but they weren't really acting - I think I walked down…

— A Fine Frenzy

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started…

— Eddie Marsan

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I…

— Fred Melamed

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

— Anthony Hopkins

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into…

— Stephen Colletti

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn't feel like I…

— Jessica Barden

I didn't act professionally before going to drama school. I don't know if I had the confidence. I didn't think I'd get in when…

— Francois Arnaud

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it…

— David Lambert

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

— Rebecca Hall

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you…

— Alan Tudyk