All Quotes

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.
‐‐ Chuck Inglish

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

Acting and singing are integrally locked together.
‐‐ Dean Butler

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
‐‐ Kate Voegele

Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
‐‐ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.
‐‐ Debby Ryan

Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
‐‐ Mark Hadlow

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

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

Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs.
‐‐ Christie Laing

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'
‐‐ Christopher Lee

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
‐‐ Steve Vai

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.
‐‐ Penelope Wilton

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
‐‐ Adam Driver

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.
‐‐ Max Beesley

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.
‐‐ Laurence Fox

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
‐‐ John Cusack

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.
‐‐ Alessandro Nivola

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
‐‐ John Boyega

Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
‐‐ Tasha Smith

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.
‐‐ Frankie Muniz

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.
‐‐ Perry Como

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.
‐‐ Raven Goodwin

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
‐‐ Josh Gad

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
‐‐ Elaine Dundy

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

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

Acting doesn't suffice.
‐‐ Rod Taylor

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe that sounds like I'm throwing it away and I'm not, I'll still do the best damn job I can, but it doesn't mean the same thing. I'm going to get the answer for myself one of these days. It's the male menopause, that's what it is.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
‐‐ Jennifer Jason Leigh

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.
‐‐ James Spader

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.
‐‐ Julian Morris

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
‐‐ Joan Chen

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
‐‐ Tom Wilkinson

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
‐‐ Taraji P. Henson

Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'
‐‐ Jonathan LaPaglia