Acting Quotes
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
Laura San Giacomo -
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
Rainey Qualley -
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
Eddie Redmayne -
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen -
I'm very serious about acting.
Victor Garber -
Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
D. W. Griffith
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
Famke Janssen -
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner -
I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
Sam Jaeger -
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Ed Asner -
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
Jackie Earle Haley
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
Nate Parker -
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
Sam Riley -
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden -
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
Carice van Houten -
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Well, my brother started acting before I did.
Abigail Breslin -
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle -
I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
Nastia Liukin