Ability Quote by Robin Williams

Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just…

— Jim Jefferies

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might…

— Jim Gaffigan

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

— Katie Cassidy

I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as…

— Chris Tucker

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

— David Duchovny

Acting is all about a kind of self-expression. When you take on different roles and become different characters, you have to draw upon your…

— Taylor Momsen

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

— Jesse Eisenberg

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this…

— Henry Winkler

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that…

— Danielle Campbell

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is…

— Jim Gaffigan

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

— Nicolas Cage

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

— Margaret Hoover