Acting Quotes

• I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

  

  Jordan Bridges
  • Different
  • Film
  • Stage

• 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 think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Challenges

• I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Power
  • Belief
  • Harnessing

• There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Everyday
  • Ridiculous
  • Villain

• Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Freedom
  • To Be
  • Spontaneous

• I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

  

  Stephen Rea
  • Acting
  • Enjoying
  • Hooked

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

  

  Josh Hamilton
  • Children
  • Acting
  • Helpful

• With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

  

  Nina Conti
  • Job
  • Control
  • Acting

• A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Dynamic

• I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

  

  Mickey Rourke
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Box

• I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

  

  Nicholas Brendon
  • Acting
  • Class
  • Speech

• I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Art
  • Character
  • Feels

• I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Choose

• We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.

  

  Joseph David-Jones
  • Moments
  • Acting
  • Emotion

• Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're playing someone else. In music, you're giving somebody 'you.' Being able to do that and being willing to share that is an entirely different thing.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Music
  • Playing
  • Share

• I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

  

  Noah Taylor
  • People
  • Acting
  • Look

• I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.

  

  Walther von Brauchitsch
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Imagine

• British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

  

  Josh Dallas
  • Acting
  • Behavior
  • Text

• It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Acting
  • Hard
  • Naked

• Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

  

  Sarah Parish
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Parties

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