Acting Quotes

• I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years. And then I went to Stratford, Ontario, where I spent three years with a Shakespeare company. We took a classical play from Stratford to New York City, and I got some good notices there and essentially stayed and did live television. And that brings you to the beginning of filming.

  

  William Shatner
  • College
  • Couple
  • Theatre

• I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

  

  Moises Arias
  • Difficult
  • Roles
  • Everyone

• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Chance
  • Audience

• Acting was what everybody thought I should do, and at 15, when you love something so much, it's like - 'That's not what I do. That's what they do.'

  

  Wyatt Russell
  • Thought
  • Something
  • Everybody

• I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Art

• Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Art
  • Terrible
  • Whimsical

• You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

  

  Nicholas Lea
  • Acting
  • Class
  • Camera

• Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

  

  Warren W. Wiersbe
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Christian

• My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.

  

  Clayton Snyder
  • People
  • School
  • Fun

• Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.

  

  Benn Northover
  • Kind
  • Curiosity
  • Creatures

• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

  

  Joshua Jackson
  • People
  • Acting
  • Fools

• On student films, everyone is pitching in to do everything, and I never felt like I was a part of a group before I started acting. I always felt like I had friends in this group and I had friends in that group, but I never felt like I had my group.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Friends
  • Films
  • Group

• Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Mother
  • Theatre
  • Hollywood

• When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

  

  Storm Reid
  • Free
  • Ideas
  • Acting

• Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Lying

• Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Passion
  • Actors

• I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

  

  Stephen Dorff
  • Movie
  • Acting
  • Piece

• Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

  

  Nolan North
  • Character
  • Game
  • Realistic

• I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

  

  Paul Giamatti
  • Story
  • Part
  • Gratification

• I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Never
  • Acting
  • Accidental

• I’m just trying to act black. Whatever that means. What exactly is acting black? I’m not sure what that is.

  

  Amara La Negra
  • Black
  • Acting
  • Means

• I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Music
  • Done
  • Problem

• What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.

  

  George Washington
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Taken

• I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

  

  Sharlto Copley
  • Acting
  • Situations
  • Improvise

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