Acting Quotes - page 91

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. (John Hurt)
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. View quote
John Hurt
Acting scares me. View quote
John Lurie
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things. View quote
Jackie Cooper
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me. View quote
Jackie Cooper
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it. View quote
Jackie Earle Haley
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. View quote
Jackie Evancho
I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too. View quote
Jackie Evancho
My first acting job was a Breck commercial. View quote
Jaclyn Smith
I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back. View quote
Jacob Artist
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. (John Mahoney)
Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true. View quote
John Robinson
So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting. View quote
John Robinson
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. View quote
John Sayles
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough. View quote
John Sayles
Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old. View quote
John Sayles
I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up. View quote
Johnny Vegas
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there. View quote
Jon Bernthal
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. View quote
Jon Hamm
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA. View quote
Jonas Armstrong
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it. (Jonathan Demme)
Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing. View quote
Jonathan Groff
As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well. View quote
Jonathan Krohn
Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do. View quote
Jonny Lee Miller
I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally. View quote
Jacqueline Emerson