I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting. ~By Eddie Albert ~
When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up. ~By Lili Taylor ~
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him! ~By Dan Burton ~
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. ~By Jessamyn West ~
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs. ~By Alan Davies ~
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. ~By Casey Kasem ~
Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll. ~By Brendan Fraser ~
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul. ~By Conrad Veidt ~
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ~By Andrew Wyeth ~
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 ~
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. ~By Jennifer Capriati ~
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. ~By Susan Sarandon ~
I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it. ~By Geraldine Chaplin ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. ~By William Hurt ~
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon. ~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss. ~By Jon Favreau ~
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that. ~By Stanley Tucci ~
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting. ~By Mark Strong ~
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. ~By Stephen Rea ~
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. ~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. ~By Keith Hernandez ~
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character. ~By Ally Sheedy ~
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. ~By Caprice Bourret ~
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this. ~By Scott Patterson ~
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ~By Robert Half ~
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it. ~By Lance Henriksen ~
I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie. ~By Thomas Haden Church ~
But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it. ~By Todd Solondz ~
I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am. ~By Julie Walters ~
So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it. ~By Brandon Routh ~
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. ~By Margaret Hamilton ~
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 ~
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you. ~By David Duchovny ~
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly. ~By Scott Bakula ~
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 ~
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways. ~By Christopher Meloni ~
There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them. ~By Victoria Pratt ~
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis! ~By Ryan Reynolds ~
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera. ~By Nicholas Lea ~
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. ~By Fiona Shaw ~
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. ~By Ricky Williams ~
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then. ~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything. ~By Richard Briers ~
Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power. ~By Ronnie Montrose ~
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice. ~By Harry Shearer ~
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it. ~By Julie London ~
I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. ~By James Stewart ~
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ~By Jared Diamond ~
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. ~By Harold H. Greene ~
It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~By Mary Lynn Rajskub ~
I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting. ~By Derek Luke ~
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college. ~By Dana Hill ~
Acting doesn't suffice. ~By Rod Taylor ~
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. ~By Edie Falco ~
And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me. ~By Liza Minelli ~
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. ~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
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. ~By Patrick Macnee ~
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress. ~By Jacqueline Susann ~
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. ~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting. ~By Julie Christie ~
I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music. ~By Brian McKnight ~
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. ~By Denzel Washington ~
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. ~By Bret Easton Ellis ~
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. ~By Tina Yothers ~
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo. ~By Nicole Kidman ~
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse. ~By Thomas Wilson ~
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. ~By Wentworth Miller ~
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ~By Johnny Depp ~
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. ~By Kim Novak ~
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 was kind of scared of failing at acting. ~By James Franco ~
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it. ~By Paul Bettany ~
I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting. ~By Julie Walters ~
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. ~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. ~By Mira Sorvino ~
Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life. ~By Devon Werkheiser ~
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved. ~By Aidan Quinn ~
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way. ~By Juliette Binoche ~
The worst acting is about imitation. ~By Paul Guilfoyle ~
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. ~By Eamon de Valera ~
You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. ~By John Fogerty ~
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 have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. ~By William Faulkner ~
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. ~By Glenda Jackson ~
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. ~By Amy Weber ~
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody. ~By Campbell Scott ~
At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry. ~By Rita Mero ~
But I'm not objective when I'm acting. ~By Laura Innes ~
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. ~By Orson Scott Card ~
Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then. ~By Lindsay Wagner ~
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that. ~By Morris Chestnut ~
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be. ~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.' ~By Harrison Ford ~
You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me. ~By Dougray Scott ~
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. ~By Dinah Sheridan ~
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. ~By Judd Nelson ~
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