300 Quotes on Acting

• In tokens of silence, a flicker disguises lives elicited from mere motion. One glance tells tales more weighty than words woven with bravado.

  Author: Elira Rashwan

• 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

• Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

  Author: Susannah York

• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  Author: Aaron Yoo

• I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

  Author: Teresa Wright

• For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• 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

• Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

  Author: Alicia Witt

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

  Author: Alicia Witt

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• 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.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• 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

• So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

  Author: Marie Windsor

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Wilson

• 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

• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  Author: Robin Williams

• 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

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• 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.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• 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 really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• 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

• Acting is my first love.

  Author: Dawn Wells

• 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

• I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• 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 I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• 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 was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.

  Author: Burt Ward

• 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

• Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

  Author: Horace Walpole

• 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

• My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• The big secret in acting is listening to people.

  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

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  Author: Arthur Waite

• 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 love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

  Author: Tim Vine

• 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.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• 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

• 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.

  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'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• 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

• God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

  Author: Evelyn Underhill

• 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.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  Author: Ted Turner

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

  Author: Charlene Tilton

• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• 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.

  Author: Billy Thornton

• 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

• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• 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 something I love.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

  Author: Noah 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

• A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

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

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

  Author: Ice T

• I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

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

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

  Author: Jacqueline Susann

• It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

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

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• 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.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.

  Author: Tara Strong

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

  Author: Tara Strong

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  Author: Tara Strong

• The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

  Author: Mark Strong

• I need to go where people are serious about acting.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• 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.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• 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

• The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

  Author: Michael Storm

• So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

  Author: Emma Stone

• The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

  Author: Ben Stiller

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

  Author: Jimmy Stewart

• I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

  Author: James Stewart

• 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.

  Author: James Stewart

• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

  Author: Hailee Steinfeld

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

  Author: Jason Statham

• I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music.

  Author: Rick Springfield

• Acting is acting.

  Author: Brent Spiner

• Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

  Author: James Spader

• 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

• 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.

  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

• 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.

  Author: Mira Sorvino

• 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.

  Author: George Soros

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

  Author: Sophocles

• A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

  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

• Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

  Author: Marla Sokoloff

• 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

• With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

  Author: Helen Slater

• 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

• Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

  Author: Ron Silver

• 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

• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• 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

• Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

  Author: Joan Severance

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

  Author: Rick Schroder

• I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

  Author: Claudia Schiffer

• I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

  Author: John Sayles

• The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

  Author: John Sayles

• 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

• The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

  Author: Fred Savage

• 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 a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• 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

• Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

  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

• Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

  Author: Kurt Russell

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

  Author: Kurt Russell

• Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

  Author: Keri Russell

• So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

  Author: Todd Rundgren

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

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

  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

• My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

  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'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.

  Author: Emily Rossum

• We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• 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

• After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

  Author: John Robinson

• 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.

  Author: John Robinson

• I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

  Author: Jill Robinson

• You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• 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 much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

  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

• Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

  Author: Alan Rickman

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

  Author: Alan Rickman

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  Author: Ralph Richardson

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  Author: Ralph Richardson

• 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

• Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

  Author: Alfonso Ribeiro

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

  Author: Ving Rhames

• 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.

  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

• Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

  Author: Lee Remick

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Robert Redford

• 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

• I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• 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 never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

  Author: Tony Randall

• Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

  Author: Mary Rajskub

• 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

• Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

  Author: Kathleen Quinlan

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

  Author: Robert Quillen

• I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

  Author: Dennis Quaid

• Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

  Author: Katie Price

• 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 really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

  Author: Michael Pitt

• On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

  Author: David Pierce

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

  Author: River Phoenix

• Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

  Author: River Phoenix

• Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

  Author: William Petersen

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

  Author: Piper Perabo

• I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

  Author: Sean Penn

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

  Author: Sean Penn

• 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.

  Author: Robin 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

• I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• 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.

  Author: Scott Patterson

• 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.

  Author: Robert Patrick

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

  Author: Christopher Parker

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

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

  Author: Brian Palma

• 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.

  Author: Brian Palma

• 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

• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

  Author: Kim Novak

• 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

• I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

  Author: David Niven

• One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

  Author: Robert Niro

• 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 don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  Author: Bebe Neuwirth

• In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

  Author: Corin Nemec

• My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• 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

• It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

  Author: Pola Negri

• 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

• Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

  Author: Liam Neeson

• Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

  Author: Alla Nazimova

• We lived and breathed acting.

  Author: David Naughton

• Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

  Author: Ajay Naidu

Ninja Inventions creation

Visit my other sites: NightofTheKnight.com | SimpleTol.com | FunFactsDatabase.com