Acting Quote by Steve Martin

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people

— William Hurt

It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge…

— Rowan Atkinson

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to…

— Ian Somerhalder

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

— Clemence Poesy

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your…

— Dean Koontz

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles…

— Peter MacNicol

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you…

— Shweta Menon

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's…

— Cameron Diaz

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

— Joan Cusack

I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that…

— Michael B. Jordan

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