My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
~By Andy Garcia ~
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
~By David McCallum ~
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
~By Jane Badler ~
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.
~By Maria Menounos ~
People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
~By Tyra Banks ~
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
~By Annette Bening ~
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.
~By Armand Assante ~
Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
~By Billy Bob Thornton ~
The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
~By John Cleese ~
I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.
~By Emma Watson ~
I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
~By Ursula Andress ~
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
~By Karolina Kurkova ~
I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.
~By Tia Carrere ~
Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.
~By Piper Laurie ~
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 ~
Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
~By Kim Carnes ~
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
~By Katey Sagal ~
That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
~By Kent McCord ~
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
~By Kelly McGillis ~
It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.
~By Jimmy Stewart ~
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
~By Cynthia Heimel ~
I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.
~By Jerry Hall ~
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
~By Anna C. Brackett ~
I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
~By Peter Stormare ~
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
~By Christopher Walken ~
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.
~By Jill Bennett ~
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
~By Taryn Manning ~
Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
~By John Robinson ~
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
~By Washington Irving ~
In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.
~By Judy Holliday ~
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
~By Brett Somers ~
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
~By Jillian Bach ~
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
~By James Franco ~
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
~By Loni Anderson ~
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
~By Tara Strong ~
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
~By David F. Houston ~
I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!
~By Emma Stone ~
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
~By James MacArthur ~
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
~By William Hurt ~
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.
~By Michael Biehn ~
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Acting's fun, but life's more important.
~By Margot Kidder ~
In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
~By Paul Greengrass ~
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
~By Billy Crystal ~
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
~By Fay Weldon ~
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
~By John Cleese ~
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
~By Karen Allen ~
I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.
~By Megan Gallagher ~
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
~By Christopher Durang ~
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
~By William Shatner ~
Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.
~By Perry Como ~
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
~By John Hurt ~
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
~By Albert Finney ~
For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
~By Jack Klugman ~
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
~By Edward Furlong ~
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
~By George Soros ~
I got into the acting business very young.
~By James MacArthur ~
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
~By Fred Melamed ~
I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.
~By Jane Badler ~
I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.
~By Stephen Dorff ~
I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.
~By Ben Quayle ~
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
~By Steve Martin ~
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
~By Ving Rhames ~
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
~By Michael Ironside ~
Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.
~By Roselyn Sanchez ~
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.
~By John Lithgow ~
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
~By Matthew Lawrence ~
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
~By Tara Lipinski ~
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 ~
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