All Quotes

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
‐‐ Glenda Jackson

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.
‐‐ Ron Silver

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
‐‐ Haley Joel Osment

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
‐‐ Spencer Tracy

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
‐‐ Robert Quillen

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

Acting is not just impersonating your character.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
‐‐ Victoria Wood

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.
‐‐ Greg Wise

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
‐‐ Vittorio Gassman

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.
‐‐ Spencer Tracy

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
‐‐ George Eliot

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.
‐‐ Kurt Fuller

Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet

Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.
‐‐ Riley Smith

Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

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.
‐‐ Billy Bob Thornton

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.
‐‐ Ray Liotta

Acting is pretty much my whole life.
‐‐ Carol Kane

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.
‐‐ Neal McDonough

Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.
‐‐ Jamie Sives

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Acting is reacting... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.
‐‐ Josh Keaton

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
‐‐ Reid Scott

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

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
‐‐ Adam Driver

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.
‐‐ Tina Fey

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
‐‐ Keith Hernandez

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

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.
‐‐ Michael Pitt

Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.
‐‐ Jemima Kirke

Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law firm, but I didn't like the look of how many files the lawyer I was working with had to take home every night. It looked like a hideous amount of work, when actors were having nice lunches and discussing books.
‐‐ Nina Conti

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.
‐‐ Elizabeth Mitchell

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.
‐‐ Emily Kinney

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

Acting is something I always wanted to do and knew I could do.
‐‐ Joie Lee

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

Acting is something I love.
‐‐ Rod Taylor

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.
‐‐ Jill Bennett

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.
‐‐ Lily Cole

Acting is something I work really, really hard on that I throw myself into a situation where I do work 18 hours a day. And I do hope to see longevity.
‐‐ Selena Gomez