Acting Quotes

• I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Acting
  • Own

• After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Done
  • Movie

• I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.

  

  John Travolta
  • Different
  • Character
  • Kids

• Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

  

  Giovanni Morassutti
  • Acting
  • Orgasm
  • Jerking

• If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Rings
  • Muhammad
  • Tyson

• The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Persons
  • Profession

• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Doing

• I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Cool
  • Persons

• Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Like
  • Gym
  • Core

• I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Acting
  • Young
  • Student

• What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Acting
  • Expression
  • Once

• I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Acting

• From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

  

  Heather Dubrow
  • Family
  • Performing
  • Young Age

• Acting is very start and stop.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Acting
  • Start

• To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Acting
  • Roles
  • Recurring

• I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • Age
  • Drama

• I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Profound

• If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Justice
  • Leadership
  • March

• To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Write

• 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
  • Dad
  • Sales
  • Bless

• Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business, which is where I am now.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Family
  • Money
  • Art

• No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Reason
  • Feels
  • Fool

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