Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stellan Skarsgard

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Spike Lee

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

Shelley Winters

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

Shemar Moore

Acting is therapeutic.

Shemar Moore

I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

Shailene Woodley

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

Rick Riordan

Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked. Yes, Lord Dionysus." Mr. D nodded. "Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on.

Rila Fukushima

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

Tim Robbins

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Steven R. McQueen

I'm addicted to acting.

Reeve Carney

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

Ray Walston

I didn't study acting.

Tom Hollander

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Tom Hooper

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

Tommy Chong

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

Victoria Wood

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

Viggo Mortensen

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Victoria Jackson

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

Victoria Pratt

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

Victoria Justice

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

Victor Mature

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

Victor Garber

I'm very serious about acting.

Veronica Roth

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

Veronica Roth

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

Richard McCabe

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Richard E. Grant

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Samantha Morton

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

Rupert Grint

I always wanted to go into acting.

Toni Collette

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

Tommy Wiseau

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

Toni Braxton

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

Stephen Dorff

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

Val Kilmer

Acting is very immediate.