Acting Quotes

• I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Real
  • Drama
  • Independent

• I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Kids
  • Littles
  • Drawing

• Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Acting

• When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.

  

  Carson Grant
  • Character
  • Fall
  • Brother

• All the world's a stage.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Acting
  • Life is
  • Valuing

• I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Actors

• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Actors
  • Boring
  • Unintelligent

• Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

  

  Michael O'Brien
  • Together
  • Human
  • Force

• To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Fall
  • Acting
  • Realizing

• During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Acting
  • Program
  • University

• There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • World
  • Moving
  • Purpose

• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

  

  Amanda Seyfried
  • Soul
  • Singing
  • Emotions

• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Dream
  • Honest
  • Hypocrite

• I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Acting
  • Lucky
  • Babysitting

• Stand-up is so rewarding, and I enjoy the acting opportunities I've had, but the only time I really feel bad is when I feel like I have this manufactured belief that I should be doing something else or there should be some type of recognition. On an intellectual level, I know it's stupid.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Opportunity
  • Stupid
  • Intellectual

• The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.

  

  Nicholas D'Agosto
  • Acting
  • Authentic
  • Characterization

• I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Person
  • Acting
  • Began

• Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Sometimes

• Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Acting
  • Ourselves
  • Reflected

• Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.

  

  Anne Jackson
  • Acting
  • Happening
  • Seem

• I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Natural

• Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

  

  Mickey Rourke
  • Acting
  • Choice
  • Profession

• I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Won
  • Modeling
  • Scholarship

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