Acting Quote by Michael Shannon

I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.

— Ari Graynor

I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be…

— Kaya Scodelario

I went into acting because I wanted to be seen being someone else, not me!

— Anita Dobson

I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into acting. I…

— Scott Speedman

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell…

— Carla Gugino

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

— Charlie Korsmo

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

— Justin Theroux

I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could…

— Yvonne Strahovski

I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a…

— Adrienne Shelly

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any…

— David Soul

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

— Lindsay Lohan

When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.

— Billie Lourd