Acting Quotes

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

Acting is really therapeutic for me, personally. That's something that I'll always remember. I don't know how it's going to look, but I gave it my heart and soul.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Acting is a form of confession.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.