Acting Quotes
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Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.
Rashida Jones
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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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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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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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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Whoopi Goldberg
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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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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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Acting is way of making yourself exist.
Stephen Rea
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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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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
Natalie Portman
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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
Russell Peters
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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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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
Stuart Townsend
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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
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I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
Swara Bhaskar
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
Humphrey Bogart
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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
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The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
Jessica Brown Findlay
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I'm acting from my heart. The way how I feel is the way how I act.
Sibel Kekilli
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I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
Charles Durning
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From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
Ewan McGregor
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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
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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
Saoirse Ronan