All Quotes

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
‐‐ Jason Ritter

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
‐‐ Jack Davenport

Acting is a form of confession.
‐‐ Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confusion.
‐‐ Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
‐‐ Miranda Otto

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.
‐‐ Clint Howard

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.
‐‐ James Spader

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.
‐‐ Katie Lowes

Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
‐‐ Pablo Schreiber

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
‐‐ Kelly McCreary

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth

Acting is a life of rejection.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.
‐‐ Sarah Steele

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
‐‐ Laurence Olivier

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
‐‐ John Travolta

Acting is a mysterious process.
‐‐ Bertie Carvel

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
‐‐ Ewen Bremner

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is a really insular thing.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.
‐‐ Jason Isaacs

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
‐‐ Andrea Thompson

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
‐‐ Samuel Barnett

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
‐‐ Shawnee Smith

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
‐‐ Romola Garai

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.
‐‐ Keri Russell

Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
‐‐ Armand Assante

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
‐‐ Lee Majors

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
‐‐ Madeline Carroll

Acting is a tough business to break into.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
‐‐ Phil Daniels

Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.
‐‐ Chris Evans

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
‐‐ Judy Holliday

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Acting is a very strange job.
‐‐ Lena Olin

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
‐‐ Isabelle Huppert

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg