Famous Quotes & Sayings

Estelle

Acting is very start and stop.

Ernie Hudson

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

Erland Josephson

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

Finn Wittrock

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

Fionnula Flanagan

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

Fiona Shaw

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Cate Blanchett

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

Cate Blanchett

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Cate Blanchett

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

Cate Blanchett

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Gottfried Leibniz

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gillian Jacobs

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

Harvey Martin

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

James Dean

How can you measure acting in inches?!?

Iyanla Vanzant

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Irene Dunne

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

Jeremy London

I was acting my way through the whole thing.

Jeremy Irons

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Jennifer Grant

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

Jennifer Garner

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

Jennifer Hudson

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

Jeff Bridges

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

George Sanders

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

George Sanders

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Jean Reno

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

Jim Gaffigan

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.

Jill Hennessy

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

Jesse L. Martin

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

Jacqueline Bisset

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

Jacqueline Bisset

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Gary Zukav

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.

Christina Ricci

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.