If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
~By Rachael Leigh ~
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
~By Petula Clark ~
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 ~
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
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 is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.
~By Cleo Moore ~
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.
~By Melissa George ~
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
~By Ving Rhames ~
In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
~By Bruce Dern ~
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
~By James Dean ~
I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
~By Alfred Molina ~
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
~By Larry Buchanan ~
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
~By Stephen Rea ~
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 ~
This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
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 ~
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 ~
Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
~By Meg Tilly ~
The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.
~By Gil Gerard ~
I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.
~By Peter Fonda ~
After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.
~By Joe Rogan ~
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
~By Ving Rhames ~
I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
~By James MacArthur ~
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.
~By Norm Coleman ~
Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
~By Meg Ryan ~
The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
~By Bobby Darin ~
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 ~
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
~By Tim Roth ~
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
~By Beth Henley ~
I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
~By Alan Bates ~
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
~By Peter Gallagher ~
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
~By Aaliyah ~
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly.
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
~By John Burroughs ~
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
~By Stephen Rea ~
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
~By Robert Redford ~
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
~By Melissa Leo ~
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 ~
Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
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 ~
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
~By Julie Benz ~
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
~By Andrea Thompson ~
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
~By Meryl Streep ~
If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
~By Alfonso Ribeiro ~
Acting is very start and stop.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
~By Meryl Streep ~
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.
~By Burt Ward ~
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.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
~By Benjamin Bratt ~
I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.
~By James Denton ~
You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
~By Dougray Scott ~
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Good acting is consistency of performance.
~By Jim Dale ~
It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.
~By Marla Sokoloff ~
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
~By Jack Herer ~
Never get caught acting.
~By Lillian Gish ~
I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity.
~By James Lafferty ~
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
~By Linda Lavin ~
I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
~By Maria Grazia Cucinotta ~
That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.
~By Billy Crudup ~
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
~By Marie Windsor ~
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
~By William Hurt ~
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.
~By Margaret Hamilton ~
His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
~By Vincent Canby ~
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 ~
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
~By Annette Bening ~
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.
~By Lusia Strus ~
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
~By Elia Kazan ~
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
~By Brian De Palma ~
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
~By Jane Elliot ~
Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
~By Stuart Townsend ~
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting.
~By Van Heflin ~
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 ~
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
~By John Gielgud ~
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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