Acting Quotes - page 13

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else. (Nichelle Nichols)
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. View quote
Thandie Newton
The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out. View quote
Dylan O'Brien
My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. View quote
Peter O'Toole
In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A. View quote
Evan Peters
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on. View quote
Paul Reiser
My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. View quote
Franka Potente
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free. View quote
Edward G. Robinson
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred. View quote
Portia de Rossi
We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting. (Portia de Rossi)
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. View quote
Amanda Seyfried
This whole religion (of Islam) revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience. View quote
Ibn Taymiyyah
I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. View quote
Tim Daly
When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive. View quote
Tamsin Greig
Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people. View quote
Dennis Weaver
The big secret in acting is listening to people. View quote
Eli Wallach
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do. View quote
Eli Wallach
I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging. View quote
Eli Wallach
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own. View quote
Eli Wallach
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. (Uta Hagen)
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency, he has a right thus to act. View quote
Francis Hutcheson
I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything. View quote
Elle Fanning
I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. View quote
Michael C. Hall
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. View quote
Alan Ladd