Acting Quotes - page 30

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression. (Russell Peters)
I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer. View quote
Ray Bolger
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! View quote
Rich Sommer
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything. View quote
Richard Briers
When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it. View quote
Sada Thompson
The acting world is a humbling experience, I find. View quote
Sharlto Copley
I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I was always doing little sketches with my friends, and doing different accents and voices. View quote
Sharlto Copley
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love. View quote
Shelley Berman
Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same. View quote
Shelley Duvall
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman. View quote
Shelley Duvall
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting. (Shemar Moore)
I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. View quote
Sherman Hemsley
When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction. View quote
Sinead O'Connor
I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don't want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they've seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something. View quote
Sophia Myles
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy. View quote
Sally Hawkins
My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl. View quote
Sally Kirkland
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that. View quote
Stanley Tucci
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting. View quote
Stanley Tucci
When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking. View quote
Stephen Chow
Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops. View quote
Stephen Collins
I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14. (Stephen Dorff)
Acting is way of making yourself exist. View quote
Stephen Rea
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along. View quote
Stephen Rea
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting. View quote
Stephen Rea
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere. View quote
Stephen Rea