Acting Quotes
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Acting is very start and stop.
Estelle Parsons -
I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
Vic Mignogna -
I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
Sam Rockwell -
Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
Taraji P. Henson -
I'd like to do more acting.
Garry Shandling -
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek -
By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
Danica McKellar
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah -
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
Shailene Woodley -
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
Lance Gross -
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
Olivia Cooke
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
Ian McShane -
I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.
Eddie Redmayne -
I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
Taylor Negron -
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
Malcolm McDowell
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
Sally Hawkins -
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
Hannah Murray -
You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
Gary Sinise -
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs