To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
~By Peter Stormare ~
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
~By Christine Baranski ~
I got into the acting business very young.
~By James MacArthur ~
I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
~By James Franco ~
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
~By Jim Henson ~
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
~By Cleo Moore ~
If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.
~By Christopher Knight ~
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.
~By Robert Patrick ~
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing.
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
~By Vittorio Gassman ~
Acting is something I love.
~By Rod Taylor ~
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
~By Shannon Elizabeth ~
Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.
~By Ronnie Montrose ~
America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
~By Joan Collins ~
I never lost my appetite for acting.
~By Eli Wallach ~
Acting is my first love.
~By Dawn Wells ~
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
~By Danny Bonaduce ~
This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
~By John Boorman ~
When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.
~By Lesley-Anne Down ~
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
~By Eric Bogosian ~
Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
~By Henry Winkler ~
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
~By Lance Henriksen ~
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
~By Garth Brooks ~
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
~By Stephen Rea ~
My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
~By Karolina Kurkova ~
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
~By Eddie Albert ~
My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
~By Sean Penn ~
I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.
~By Leslie Easterbrook ~
It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
~By Lukas Haas ~
I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
~By Dorthea Brande ~
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
~By John Cleese ~
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.
~By Paul M. Glaser ~
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
~By James Stewart ~
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
~By Sophocles ~
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
~By Meryl Streep ~
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
~By Annette Bening ~
The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
~By Dirk Bogarde ~
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
~By Francesca Annis ~
The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.
~By Lawrence Hargrave ~
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
~By Shelley Berman ~
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.
~By Emily Rossum ~
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
~By Lord Byron ~
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.
~By Monica Keena ~
I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.
~By Christina Milian ~
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.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
Acting is what happens on the way.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
~By Leslie Easterbrook ~
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
~By Alan Ladd ~
I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
~By Megan Fox ~
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
~By Steve McQueen ~
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
~By Scott Caan ~
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
~By Gavin Bryars ~
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
~By Robert Quillen ~
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
~By Nichelle Nichols ~
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.
~By Julie London ~
I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
~By Dana Delany ~
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.
~By Christopher Parker ~
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
~By Thomas Merton ~
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
~By William Hazlitt ~
It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.
~By Mary Lynn Rajskub ~
It's a living, breathing thing, acting.
~By Frank Langella ~
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
~By Tom Coburn ~
An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.
~By Melissa Leo ~
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
~By Frank Langella ~
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
~By Chris Brown ~
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
~By Gene Wilder ~
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
~By Ang Lee ~
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~By Euripides ~
Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.
~By Frankie Muniz ~
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