Top 1200 Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

I started acting when I was 5 or so. I just did acting for fun, not actually to be an actor.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is a really fortunate thing.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.

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

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

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

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

I try to think of acting in terms of thinking and doing. People think of it as, "Oh, let's get inside this guy." They think that acting is being, or feeling, or emoting. It's as much doing. One of the first things you do as an acting student is ask, "Can you say words and do a task at the same time, like sweep a floor?" You get to watch the human condition, and there's always a "doing" aspect of it. This couple, they're carrying backpacks, where are they going? Students? Or are they carrying instruments? It stimulates the imagination. So acting is doing ... and I forget how we got off on that.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

Yes, I am acting in my singles, but that is very different from acting in a movie.

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

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I wish there was an autotune for acting. That would make everyone win the best acting award immediately.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

Well, acting on stage is very different from acting on screen.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.

Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.