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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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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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
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Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.
Dan Barker
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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
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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles A. Murray
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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 was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.
Willem Dafoe
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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 key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
Stephen Covey
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
Nicole Maines
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
Humphrey Bogart
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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
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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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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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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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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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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
Tommy Chong
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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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I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
Noomi Rapace
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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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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
Natalie Portman