All Quotes

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
‐‐ Olivia Thirlby

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.
‐‐ Deborah Ann Woll

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.
‐‐ Jon Hamm

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
‐‐ Rosalind Russell

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.
‐‐ Stockard Channing

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
‐‐ Maika Monroe

Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

Acting is such a weird job.
‐‐ Michael Cera

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
‐‐ Ralph Richardson

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
‐‐ Melissa Leo

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
‐‐ Charles S. Dutton

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
‐‐ Marlon Brando

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
‐‐ Cyril Cusack

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.
‐‐ Amy Carlson

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
‐‐ Lee Strasberg

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.
‐‐ Nikki Cox

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
‐‐ Laurette Taylor

Acting is the way I make my living.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

Acting is therapeutic.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
‐‐ Jason Isaacs

Acting is very immediate.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.
‐‐ Lusia Strus

Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in - like Meryl Streep's, for instance.
‐‐ Catherine Mary Stewart

Acting is very start and stop.
‐‐ Estelle Parsons

Acting is way of making yourself exist.
‐‐ Stephen Rea

Acting is what happens on the way.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
‐‐ Meg Ryan

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.
‐‐ Scott Haze

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.
‐‐ Alexander Ludwig

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.
‐‐ Kristanna Loken

Acting is wonderful, but it's not pulling in the type of money that I want. It's not bringing in the type of money that I am used to or the type of money that is going to supply my lifestyle. I'm a leisure girl; I like to be over in Italy or in Europe, you know shopping or vacationing, you know.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick