Acting Quotes

• My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

  

  Nora Fatehi
  • Acting
  • Dancing
  • Naturally

• I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Acting
  • Comedian
  • Progression

• 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

• Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

  

  Joseph Mawle
  • People
  • Acting
  • Understand

• 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
  • Running
  • Bigs
  • Republican

• I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

  

  Siegfried Sassoon
  • Acting
  • Soldier
  • Convinced

• The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Games
  • Integrity
  • Keys

• Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • People
  • Acting
  • Suspicious

• Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Sometimes

• Every director should take an acting class.

  

  Paul Feig
  • Acting
  • Class
  • Director

• Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Feel
  • Acting
  • Broke

• For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

  

  Eva Green
  • Blood
  • Characters
  • Therapy

• I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.

  

  George Stults
  • Acting
  • Happens
  • Agent

• This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Acting

• 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

• Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

  

  Mickey Rourke
  • Acting
  • Choice
  • Profession

• It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.

  

  Ryan Newman
  • Experience
  • Singing
  • Emotion

• 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
  • People
  • Character
  • Helping

• My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Truth
  • Artist
  • Goal

• How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Team
  • Building
  • Humility

• I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Acting

• I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Acting

• You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Planning
  • Directors
  • Window

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