300 Quotes on Acting

• Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

  Author: Tina Yothers

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

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

  Author: William Wordsworth

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

  Author: Beatrice Wood

• 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.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Ricky Williams

• You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

  Author: Charlotte Whitton

• There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

  Author: Pearl White

• I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.

  Author: Shane West

• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

  Author: Devon Werkheiser

• You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

  Author: Tom Welling

• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

  Author: Hugo Weaving

• 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.

  Author: Emma Watson

• One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

  Author: Julie Walters

• I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

  Author: Julie Walters

• I didn't study acting.

  Author: Ray Walston

• I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• I never lost my appetite for acting.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• 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.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

  Author: Lindsay Wagner

• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• 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.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

  Author: Paz Vega

• And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

  Author: Janine Turner

• Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

  Author: Janine Turner

• In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• 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.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

  Author: Spencer Tracy

• 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.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

  Author: Kristin Thomas

• Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

  Author: Ellen Terry

• Acting doesn't suffice.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

  Author: Laurette Taylor

• I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

  Author: Jeffrey Tambor

• My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

  Author: Tara Strong

• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

  Author: Lee Strasberg

• It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

  Author: Jimmy Stewart

• I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

  Author: Jason Statham

• Acting is acting.

  Author: Brent Spiner

• I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

  Author: David Soul

• Acting is what happens on the way.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

  Author: Sophocles

• I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• 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.

  Author: Brett Somers

• But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• This nation loves singing and loves acting.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

  Author: Amy Smart

• There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

  Author: Stellan Skarsgard

• You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

  Author: Gary Sinise

• I kind of dwindled into acting.

  Author: Ron Silver

• While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

  Author: Dinah Sheridan

• Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

  Author: Harry Shearer

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

  Author: William Shatner

• Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

  Author: William Shatner

• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• 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.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

  Author: John Sayles

• Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

  Author: Fred Savage

• I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

  Author: Siegfried Sassoon

• Acting is happy agony.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

  Author: Peter Sarsgaard

• One of the joys about acting is researching.

  Author: William Sanderson

• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  Author: George Sanders

• Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

  Author: Roselyn Sanchez

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  Author: Katey Sagal

• Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

  Author: Meg Ryan

• Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

  Author: Rosalind Russell

• I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

  Author: Kurt Russell

• I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

  Author: Kurt Russell

• I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

  Author: Gena Rowlands

• 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.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

  Author: Tim Roth

• I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• You see, I've never really studied acting.

  Author: Diana Ross

• If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

  Author: Richard Rosen

• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

  Author: Alan Rickman

• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  Author: Miranda Richardson

• I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

  Author: Ving Rhames

• 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!

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

  Author: Ivan Reitman

• And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

  Author: Paul Reiser

• A lot of what acting is paying attention.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

  Author: Stephen Rea

• Acting is way of making yourself exist.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

  Author: Anthony Rapp

• I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

  Author: Tony Randall

• I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

  Author: Aidan Quinn

• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

  Author: Robert Quillen

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

  Author: Parker Posey

• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  Author: Natalie Portman

• And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

  Author: River Phoenix

• I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

  Author: Piper Perabo

• Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

  Author: Sean Penn

• 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.

  Author: Robin Penn

• Acting is very start and stop.

  Author: Estelle Parsons

• There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

  Author: Estelle Parsons

• Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  Author: Tatum O'Neal

• And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

  Author: Laurence Olivier

• I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

  Author: Chris Noth

• I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

  Author: Nichelle Nichols

• Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

  Author: Paul Newman

• I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

  Author: Sam Neill

• Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• We lived and breathed acting.

  Author: David Naughton

• When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• 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.

  Author: Frankie Muniz

• You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

  Author: Martin Mull

• With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

  Author: David Morse

• I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

  Author: David Morse

• I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

  Author: Rebecca Mornay

• I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

  Author: Alfred Molina

• Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

  Author: Beverley Mitchell

• 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.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.

  Author: Christina Milian

• Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

  Author: Vic Mignogna

• 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.

  Author: Rita Mero

• I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

  Author: Steve McQueen

• 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.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  Author: Ian McKellen

• From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

  Author: Kelly McGillis

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  Author: Edie McClurg

• One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

  Author: Mercedes McCambridge

• The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

  Author: Paul Mazursky

• As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

  Author: Mary Mastrantonio

• Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

  Author: Mary Mastrantonio

• The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

  Author: Olivier Martinez

• 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.

  Author: Cindy Margolis

• Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

  Author: Sophie Marceau

• And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

  Author: Josie Maran

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  Author: Taryn Manning

• Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

  Author: Michael Madsen

• Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  Author: Patrick Macnee

• Acting scares me.

  Author: John Lurie

• In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

  Author: Arthur Lowe

• My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

  Author: Eva Longoria

• I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

  Author: Nia Long

• The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

  Author: Julie London

• If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

  Author: Julie London

• I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

  Author: Alison Lohman

• I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

  Author: James Lipton

• The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

  Author: James Lipton

• 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.

  Author: Tara Lipinski

• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  Author: Tea Leoni

• 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.

  Author: Ang Lee

• This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

  Author: Matt LeBlanc

• When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

  Author: Matt LeBlanc

• 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.

  Author: Nicholas Lea

• It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

  Author: Linda Lavin

• I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

  Author: Piper Laurie

• Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

  Author: Piper Laurie

• I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

  Author: Lillie Langtry

• It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

  Author: Frank Langella

• There is no right in acting.

  Author: Frank Langella

• You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

  Author: Frank Langella

• But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

  Author: Frank Langella

• I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

  Author: Ted Lange

• To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

  Author: Jessica Lange

• I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

  Author: Christine Lahti

• When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

  Author: Christine Lahti

• A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

  Author: Alan Ladd

• Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

  Author: Swoosie Kurtz

• My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

  Author: Karolina Kurkova

• I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

  Author: Shirley Knight

• I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

  Author: Christopher Knight

• A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

  Author: Heidi Klum

• For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

  Author: Jack Klugman

• 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.

  Author: Randal Kleiser

• But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

  Author: Robert Klein

• The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

  Author: Klaus Kinski

• I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• There's so much crap talked about acting.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• Acting is very immediate.

  Author: Val Kilmer

• Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

  Author: Elia Kazan

• Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

  Author: Elia Kazan

• Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

  Author: Casey Kasem

• I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

  Author: Kato Kaelin

• 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.

  Author: Peter Jurasik

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Author: Carl Jung

• Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

  Author: James Jones

• The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

  Author: Maria Jeritza

• I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

  Author: Michael Ironside

• Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

  Author: Kathy Ireland

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  Author: Laura Innes

• 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.

  Author: John Hurt

• My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

  Author: John Hurt

• Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

  Author: Isabelle Huppert

• It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

  Author: Kelly Hu

• I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

  Author: Anthony Hopkins

• 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.

  Author: Judy Holliday

• I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

  Author: Judy Holliday

• 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.

  Author: Dustin Hoffman

• Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

  Author: Eva Herzigova

• Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

  Author: Keith Hernandez

• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

  Author: Jack Herer

• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

  Author: Natasha Henstridge

• 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.

  Author: Beth Henley

• Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

  Author: Beth Henley

• 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.

  Author: Cynthia Heimel

• Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting.

  Author: Van Heflin

• Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  Author: Salma Hayek

• I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

  Author: Phil Hartman

• I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

  Author: Melissa Hart

• I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

  Author: Gregory Harrison

• To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

  Author: Emmylou Harris

• One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

  Author: Ed Harris

• I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

  Author: Harry Hamlin

• It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

  Author: Margaret Hamilton

• Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

  Author: Mark Hamill

• I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

  Author: Michael Hall

• I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

  Author: Michael Hall

• It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

  Author: Michael Hall

• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  Author: Uta Hagen

• On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

  Author: Maggie Gyllenhaal

• Acting is constant exploration.

  Author: Paul Guilfoyle

• The worst acting is about imitation.

  Author: Paul Guilfoyle

• I always wanted to go into acting.

  Author: Rupert Grint

• 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.

  Author: Paul Greengrass

• I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'

  Author: Elliott Gould

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  Author: Oliver Goldsmith

• Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

  Author: Whoopi Goldberg

• I'm not acting, but I am acting.

  Author: Tracey Gold

• I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

  Author: Mark Goddard

• Never get caught acting.

  Author: Lillian Gish

• I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

  Author: David Ginola

• Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

  Author: John Gielgud

• I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

  Author: Laura Giacomo

• 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.

  Author: Jim Gerlach

• I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

  Author: Richard Gere

• When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

  Author: Richard Gere

• The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

  Author: Jim Garrison

• I'm very serious about acting.

  Author: Victor Garber

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  Author: Victor Garber

• As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

  Author: Megan Gallagher

• I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

  Author: Megan Gallagher

• Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

  Author: Stephen Fry

• Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

  Author: Morgan Freeman

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