Top 1200 Good Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

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

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

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

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

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.

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

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

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

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

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

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.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

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

Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a film geek. I grew up making short films the same time I was acting. For me, it's a motion picture, not a play. I'm just as interested in what the camera department is doing and world building through costume design and production design as I am in acting. I think all good directors do that whether they're an actor or not.

I like acting. It is a well-paid job and according to some people, I am good at it.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

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.

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

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

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

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

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

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

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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

After 'Njandukalude...' I had gone for an acting course in Mumbai as I felt the need to improve my acting skills.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.

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

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

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

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

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

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

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.