All Quotes

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
‐‐ Sophie Marceau

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.
‐‐ Bella Thorne

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
‐‐ Edie McClurg

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
‐‐ Nolan Gould

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
‐‐ Sofia Coppola

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.
‐‐ Brie Larson

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
‐‐ Paul Newman

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
‐‐ Lee Strasberg

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
‐‐ Victoria Pratt

Acting. It's the number one thing I love to do. That's why when people ask me what else I'd love to do, I have no answer - this is all I ever wanted to do.
‐‐ Freddie Stroma

Acting, it's very different. It's obviously very different and a lot more difficult than the modeling world I came from.
‐‐ Sarah Roemer

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

Acting kind of chose me.
‐‐ Isabel Lucas

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.
‐‐ Marla Sokoloff

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
‐‐ Tommy Mottola

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
‐‐ Colin Ford

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.
‐‐ Harvey Martin

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Riva

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
‐‐ Clemence Poesy

Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.
‐‐ Janine Turner

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
‐‐ John Corbett

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

Acting meant so much to me.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?
‐‐ Julian Ovenden

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
‐‐ Arthur Lowe

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.
‐‐ Tommy Flanagan

Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.
‐‐ Emma Watson

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
‐‐ Kim Carnes

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
‐‐ Osric Chau

Acting on a blue screen is awful.
‐‐ Steve Burns

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
‐‐ Robert Half

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
‐‐ Hattie Morahan

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
‐‐ Josh Radnor

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
‐‐ Vanessa Marcil

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
‐‐ Crystal Lowe

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
‐‐ Toni Servillo

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.
‐‐ Cassie Scerbo

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

Acting's boring.
‐‐ Ian McShane

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

Acting's fun, but life's more important.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.
‐‐ Honeysuckle Weeks

Acting's more of a business for me now.
‐‐ Randy Quaid

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad