Adapting Quote by Nick Swardson

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

— S. Sreesanth

I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into…

— Suriya

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully.…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

— Robert De Niro

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

— Kathy Griffin

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

— Ethel Waters

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

— Michael B. Jordan

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought…

— Anonymous

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was…

— Michael Shannon

I learned to act reactively very well because those were the sorts of roles I was given for 20 years. It was hard to…

— Yvette Mimieux

I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

— Anonymous

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

— Ari Graynor