Acting Quotes
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo
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As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
Rajkummar Rao
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
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All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
Whoopi Goldberg
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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
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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
Stuart Townsend
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Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.
Nolan Sotillo
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
Esther Renay Dean
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Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.
Stockard Channing
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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
Ewan McGregor
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Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
Paul Newman
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
Judy Blume
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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
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
Michael Caine
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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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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
Denzel Whitaker
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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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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
Noah Hawley
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
Anne Hathaway
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I think acting is getting better and better.
William H. Macy
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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
Carrie Fisher