Acting Quotes

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.

Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
- Trying
- School
- Together
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

Heather Donahue
- Writing
- Acting
- Wanted

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Wilford Brimley
- School
- Best
- Years
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

Estelle Parsons
- Actors
- Sadness
- Reverence
I have these surreal moments where I’m like ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.’ But you’re acting, so the focus is on the work.

Sarah Gadon
- Focus
- Moments
- Baby
I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.

Ethan Hawke
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

George Sanders
I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

William Baldwin
- College
- Couple
- Waiting