Acting Quote by Mike Colter

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with…

— Richard Yates

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the…

— Clint Eastwood

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

— William Holden

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

— Charlton Heston

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical.…

— Al Pacino

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except…

— Meryl Streep

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to…

— Kris Holden-Ried

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

— Roger Allam

For me, acting is just dead easy. You're somebody else and you leave your world behind.

— Kerry Katona

I think the great thing about acting is that it's not all the same. You're constantly challenged and constantly pushed to your limit. It's…

— Liana Liberato

Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing…

— Alia Shawkat

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then…

— Jodie Foster