Acting Quotes

• Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Acting

• I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

  

  Norman Fell
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Paid

• Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.

  

  Sasha Lane
  • Personality
  • Part
  • Opposite

• I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Acting
  • Shots

• I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Persons
  • Actors
  • Ends

• I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Laughter

• Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.

  

  Josh McDowell
  • Parents
  • Acting
  • Heroes

• My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.

  

  Phil Daniels
  • People
  • School
  • Running

• I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Face
  • I Believe
  • Scene

• I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Would
  • Needed
  • Drummer

• As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.

  

  Nia Long
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Appreciate

• I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Acting

• Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

  

  Josh Hutcherson
  • Change
  • Acting
  • Growing Up

• I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Film
  • Pleasure
  • Makeup

• I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.

  

  Eve Plumb
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Dreamed

• The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

  

  Francis Hutcheson
  • Certain
  • Ultimate
  • Tendencies

• I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

  

  Joseph Mazzello
  • Acting
  • Felt
  • Naturally

• Sensible decision making involves acting on the information we have, even while accepting that it may well be imperfect and our decisions may need to be revisited and revised in light of new information.

  

  Naomi Oreskes
  • Acting
  • Information
  • Decisions

• Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

  

  Mike Epps
  • Reason
  • Struggle
  • Streams

• I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.

  

  Julia Garner
  • Parents
  • Acting
  • Wanted

• I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Real
  • Persons
  • Disappear

• It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Challenge
  • Really
  • Because

• In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

  

  Will Chase
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Worth

• I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Play
  • Listening
  • Said

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