Acting Quotes
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Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.
Ming-Na Wen
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I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.
Steve Zahn
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I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.
Charles Martin Smith
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The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
Sharlto Copley
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I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.
Paul Giamatti
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.
J. C. Ryle
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Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
Stephen Collins
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I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
Chad Everett
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I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
Tom Hollander
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I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.
Nicholas John Frost
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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
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I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
Hayden Christensen
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Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
Jonny Lee Miller
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As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.
Nia Long
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I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
Michael Caine
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Bette Davis
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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
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Every director should take an acting class.
Paul Feig
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I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
Kevin Spacey
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It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
Ben Miller
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A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
Joseph Wiseman
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Acting is emotionally draining, so I make it a point to not do anything when I am home.
Nithya Menen
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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
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The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
Mike Leigh