Acting Quotes

• 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
  • Passion
  • Goal
  • Path

• I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

  

  Joseph Mazzello
  • Acting
  • Felt
  • Naturally

• Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Acting
  • My Life
  • Normal

• My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is incredibly rewarding, working and interacting with people to create funny moments. I can't imagine not doing acting or stand-up, I really enjoy both of them that much.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Moments
  • Unique

• I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Acting
  • I Love
  • Dressing

• Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Competition
  • Loses

• It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Acting
  • Hard
  • Naked

• I think acting is getting better and better.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Acting

• As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

  

  Denzel Whitaker
  • Character
  • Acting
  • Actor

• Acting is way of making yourself exist.

  

  Stephen Rea
  • Acting
  • Exist
  • Making

• 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
  • Acting
  • Class
  • Speech

• Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

  

  Julianne Hough
  • Acting
  • Inspiring
  • Therapy

• How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Children
  • Shows
  • Adults

• 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
  • Life
  • Music
  • Acting

• 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
  • People
  • Children
  • Mean

• 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.
  • Acting
  • Summer
  • Program

• I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.

  

  Suzanne Crough
  • Kids
  • Stills
  • Stable

• There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

  

  Noah Hawley
  • Quality
  • Acting
  • Craft

• You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Children
  • Drama
  • Actors

• Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Heart
  • Acting
  • Careers

• Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

  

  Sibel Kekilli
  • Good
  • Game
  • Acting

• If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

  

  Cyd Charisse
  • Choices
  • Acting
  • Dancing

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Trouble

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