Acting Quotes

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

~ Hailee Steinfeld

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

~ Abigail Breslin

My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

~ Blake Lively

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

~ Raven Goodwin

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

~ Tyler James Williams

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

~ Pope Francis

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

~ Anna Faris

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

~ Alexander Gould

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

~ Missy Elliott

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

~ Jinato Hu

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

~ John Cusack

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

~ James Earl Jones

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

~ Jaime Camil

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

~ Mara Wilson

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

~ George Soros

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

~ Elia Kazan

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

~ Omari Hardwick

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

~ Merritt Wever

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

~ Diane Kruger

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

~ Gary Zukav

I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

~ Karan Singh Grover

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

~ Carole Bouquet

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

~ Joe Rogan

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

~ Freddie Prinze

I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs.

~ Michael Porter

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.

~ Jim Mcgovern

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

~ Randeep Hooda