Acting Quotes

• I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

  

  Noomi Rapace
  • Humanity
  • Acting
  • Explore

• I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • College
  • Singing
  • Acting

• I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

  

  Nicholas John Frost
  • School
  • Acting
  • Waiter

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

  

  Steven Ford
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Acting

• We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

  

  Stephen Rea
  • Literature
  • Acting
  • Exploration

• You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

  

  Josh Hartnett
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Independent

• To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Personality
  • Acting
  • Childlike

• I just kind of fell into acting.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Acting
  • Fell

• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Students
  • Hills
  • Apartment

• I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

  

  Josh Hamilton
  • Children
  • Acting
  • Helpful

• I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Acting
  • Destiny
  • Television

• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Mean

• I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

  

  Josh Brolin
  • School
  • Acting
  • Profession

• I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.

  

  Dan Payne
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Wanted

• Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Acting

• Acting kind of chose me.

  

  Isabel Lucas
  • Acting
  • Chose

• If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

  

  Paul Morrissey
  • Live
  • Acting
  • Camera

• 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

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Calm
  • Inspiring
  • Dickens

• In hockey, there are no second chances, but the great thing about acting is that there actually are. If you do a scene and you think you can do better - take two!

  

  Wyatt Russell
  • Thing
  • Chances
  • Actually

• I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Acting
  • My Life
  • Normal

• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Improvisation

• If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Political
  • Actors
  • Golf

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