Acting Quotes
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
Tahj Mowry
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
Dabney Coleman
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
Carl Weathers
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
Felicity Jones
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
Olivia Cooke
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
Haley Joel Osment
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
Valerie Azlynn
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I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.
Retta
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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
Oscar Wilde
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
Fab Five Freddy
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
Sally Hawkins
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
Sam Shepard
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
Hannah Ware
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
Fiona Gubelmann
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I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.
Mac Miller
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
Zoe Kazan
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
Carole King
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
Zhang Ziyi
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw