Acting Quotes

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

~ Charisma Carpenter

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

~ Peggy Lipton

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

~ Alanna Ubach

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

~ Jane Elliot

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

~ Tyra Banks

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.

~ Bryan Greenberg

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

~ Jay Duplass

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

~ Amandla Stenberg

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

~ Mark Salling

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

~ Liam Neeson

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

~ Christian Lous Lange

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

~ Dennis Prager

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'

~ Bill Skarsgard

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

~ Aldis Hodge

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

~ Ed Asner

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

~ Diane Kruger

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

~ Bill Murray

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

~ Richard M. Nixon

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

~ Nick Frost

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

~ Evangeline Lilly

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

~ Mark Ruffalo

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

~ William Hazlitt

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

~ Andrea Seigel

When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.

~ James Mcavoy

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

~ Carlos Castañeda

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

~ Stella Adler

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

~ Edmund Burke

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

~ Sophocles

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

~ Simon Sinek

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.

~ Barton Gellman

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

~ Brenton Thwaites

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

~ Kerry Washington

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

~ Adam Driver

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

~ Mira Sorvino

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

~ Carson Daly

I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.

~ Chris Pratt

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

~ James Dean