Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
‐‐ Meg Tilly
Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
‐‐ Nick Robinson
Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.
‐‐ Josh Peck
Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.
‐‐ Sean Pertwee
Acting scares me.
‐‐ John Lurie
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.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu
Acting should be an end in itself.
‐‐ Chris Sarandon
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
‐‐ Bette Davis
Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
‐‐ Tom Hanks
Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.
‐‐ Vincent Rodriguez III
Acting takes so much energy.
‐‐ Marian Seldes
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
‐‐ Adam Driver
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
‐‐ Glenn Close
Acting to me is always reacting.
‐‐ Spencer Tracy
Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
‐‐ David Wenham
Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
‐‐ Bai Ling
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
‐‐ Alan Rickman
Acting truly is a love of mine.
‐‐ David Lambert
Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.
‐‐ Pete Ploszek
Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.
‐‐ James Nesbitt
Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
‐‐ Brian J. White
Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
‐‐ Natasha Little
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
‐‐ Kate Walsh
Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.
‐‐ Andrea Navedo
Acting was always my first passion.
‐‐ Janet Jackson
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.
‐‐ Jesse Johnson
Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
‐‐ Bill Skarsgard
Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.
‐‐ Alexander Gould
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
‐‐ Cody Horn
Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
‐‐ Kabir Bedi
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
‐‐ Sara Paxton
Acting was my first love.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello
Acting was my first love before music.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke
Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
‐‐ Charlie Korsmo
Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
‐‐ Ja Rule
Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into high school and was like, 'Nah, I don't want to continue acting.' Cause I got into it professionally by local theater, and from there, I just decided to do sports and be more a high school kid and have my fun.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti
Acting was something I had to do.
‐‐ Nancy Marchand
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
‐‐ Gaby Hoffmann
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.
‐‐ Kurt Russell
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
‐‐ Elia Kazan
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello
Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
‐‐ Jane Badler
Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
‐‐ Laura Prepon
Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.
‐‐ Travis Fimmel