Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

Joyce Carol Oates

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Kate Walsh

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

Katey Sagal

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

Katey Sagal

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Kate Bosworth

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

Julie Christie

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

Julie Delpy

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

Julie Delpy

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

Julie Burchill

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

Lenny Kravitz

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

Terrence J

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.

Teri Polo

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

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.

Sam Rockwell

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

Raul Julia

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Robert Redford

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

Vincent Cassel

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Washington Irving

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Winona Ryder

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Woody Harrelson

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

Saoirse Ronan

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

Saoirse Ronan

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Whoopi Goldberg

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

Wes Craven

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

Zach Galifianakis

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

Zachary Levi

I'm more of a seat of my pants, heat of the moment kind of person, which lends itself well to hosting and acting, but not necessarily going, "Oh, what is my shot list? That's right, I needed to work on a shot list."

Zac Efron

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

Zhang Ziyi

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

William H. Macy

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting.