Acting Quotes

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

~ Bill Murray

Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

~ Olga Kurylenko

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

~ Charles Duhigg

If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

~ Damian Lewis

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

~ Thayer David

Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.

~ Sebastian Stan

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

~ Ralph Fiennes

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

~ James Stewart

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

~ Charles Grodin

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

~ Melissa Benoist

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

~ Ben Kingsley

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

~ Maddie Ziegler

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

~ Roddy Mcdowall

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

~ Jim Henson

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

~ Warren Beatty

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

~ Ava Gardner

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

~ Jean-Marc Vallee

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

~ Adam Ant

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

~ Vincent Cassel

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

~ Gene Wilder

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

~ Harold Ramis

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

~ Bill Murray

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

~ Eddie Izzard

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

~ Shia Labeouf

I think acting is a work of imagination.

~ Elodie Yung

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

~ Robin Wright

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

~ John Hurt

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

~ Christina Ricci

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

~ Kristen Stewart

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

~ Stephen Lang

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

~ Shailene Woodley

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

~ Donna Brazile

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

~ Anna Freud

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

~ Hugh Grant

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

~ Amy Adams

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

~ Rachel Stevens

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

~ Beth Henley

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

~ Bret Mckenzie