Acting Quotes

• My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

  

  Susan Strasberg
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Bored

• I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

  

  Monica Keena
  • People
  • Different
  • Acting

• I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • School
  • Study
  • Drama

• Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Actors
  • Radio
  • Backgrounds

• The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.

  

  Susan Lucci
  • School
  • Acting
  • Mentality

• Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Kind
  • Actors
  • Certain

• The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Crafts

• A career in acting, it's a learning process.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Learning
  • Acting
  • Process

• I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

  

  Moran Atias
  • Different
  • Art
  • Stories

• I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

  

  Troy Garity
  • Moments
  • Emotion
  • Disappear

• Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Men
  • Advantage
  • Hipster

• If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Stories

• Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Acting

• Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Writing
  • Challenges
  • Difficulty

• There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Atoms

• 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

• It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

  

  Summer Altice
  • Acting
  • Yourself
  • Role

• Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

  

  Simon Callow
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Core

• I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • God
  • Love
  • Supernatural

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

  

  Walther von Brauchitsch
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Needs
  • Actors
  • Conclusion

• Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • Different
  • Being
  • Able

• Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Giving
  • Acting

• Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Writing
  • Acting

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