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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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
Steve Martin
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Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
Paul Newman
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
Carrie Fisher
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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 want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
Noomi Rapace
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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
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I definitely caught acting bug.
Ray Fisher
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I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.
Celia Imrie
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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
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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
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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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I think it's almost better to start acting at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.
Josh Duhamel
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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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Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!
Nushrat Bharucha
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
Anne Hathaway
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
Simon Sinek
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
Thomas Sowell
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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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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
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The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
Alex Gansa