Acting Quote by Michael Shurtleff

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who…

— Michael Shurtleff

I'm not saying that theatre is a doomed profession, but if a person wants to stay in it very long, they'd better develop theatre…

— Dakin Matthews

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

Acting on TV is ruled out. I admire those who do it, but I found it quite strenuous.

— Hema Malini

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be…

— Peter Dinklage

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are…

— Eddie Redmayne

If people find me suitable for a role, which equally interests me, then I will think about it. Having said that, there is a…

— Hina Khan

So you want to take the risk, and you want to step out there; you do it because that's what we have to do…

— Corey Hawkins

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

— John Cassavetes

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are…

— Andrew Rannells

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real…

— Michael Caine