Top 1200 Acting Career Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.

I did not choose acting as a career.

When I was building my career as a choreographer, acting just happened.

Acting is my career. I am pursuing it with passion.

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

The film business has changed and society has changed. I started acting before the internet, which is insane to say. That makes me sound so old! You evolve, and the kind of career I thought I wanted, even six or seven years ago, was completely different from the career I have now, and I couldn't be happier about it. It's been a crazy trip.

Saab never asked me to give up my career. In fact, he encouraged me to continue acting after marriage. But, after a while, my heart was not in my career. I just wanted to take care of Saab.

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

Maybe after my strongman career, I'll focus more on acting. Who knows?

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

Maybe I should take more acting classes or pursue a career in that.

I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.

My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party and the role of the party people, and I used to think that one day I too would be a part of it. But when acting happened, politics took a backseat in my mind and I concentrated more into building my acting career.

I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn't know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn't know.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I didn't think acting would be a lucrative career.

I still feel the affection of the fans that I get because of my acting career.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.

Ever since I got married, my acting career has taken a backseat.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

I concentrate on acting while my dad handles the business side of my career.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

Had I not been a model at the beginning of my career, probably acting would not have happened.

I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career

I gave up acting while I just pursued my music career.

I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.