Acting Quotes

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.

When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.