All Quotes

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.
‐‐ Clara Mamet

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
‐‐ John Corbett

Acting is a youthful profession.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.
‐‐ Tyler Christopher

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
‐‐ Mathieu Amalric

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.
‐‐ Peter MacNicol

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
‐‐ Katherine Parkinson

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.
‐‐ Catherine Hicks

Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

Acting is acting.
‐‐ Brent Spiner

Acting is actually private.
‐‐ Joan Chen

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

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
‐‐ George Burns

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
‐‐ Coolio

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
‐‐ Thomas Kretschmann

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.
‐‐ Tyler Posey

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.
‐‐ Robert Preston

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.
‐‐ Joseph Mazzello

Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
‐‐ Greg Poehler

Acting is always therapeutic.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.
‐‐ Michael Welch

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
‐‐ James Franco

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.
‐‐ Bruce Glover

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
‐‐ Billy Crudup

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
‐‐ John Hurt

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
‐‐ Talulah Riley

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
‐‐ Bokeem Woodbine

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
‐‐ Beau Garrett

Acting is bloody scary.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It's like hanging out with your friends.
‐‐ Martha Kelly

Acting is constant exploration.
‐‐ Paul Guilfoyle

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
‐‐ Sophie Marceau

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

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
‐‐ Robin Williams

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.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

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.
‐‐ Tara Lipinski

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.
‐‐ James Spader

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
‐‐ Charles Durning

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
‐‐ Zach McGowan

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
‐‐ Adam Lamberg

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
‐‐ Humphrey Bogart

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
‐‐ Amber Benson

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.
‐‐ Amanda Schull

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley