Acting Quotes
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
Michael B. Jordan
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I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Tim Robbins
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Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
Nick Robinson
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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Melissa Leo
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I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
Sarah Shahi
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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
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My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles A. Murray
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I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
Casey Wilson
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I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.
Cassie Steele
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When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
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A career in acting, it's a learning process.
Nick Nolte
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Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
Celia Imrie
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Acting is embarrassing.
Essie Davis
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Marilyn Monroe
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Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
Charles Durning
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One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
Michael Shannon
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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
Charles Durning
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Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.
Ernest Gold
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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
Josh Gad
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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
Ethan Hawke
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I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
Sharon Horgan
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Paul Newman
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
Judy Blume