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“Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.”

“Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.”

“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.”

Ifs Together Film Actors Fun Sound Acting Failing Risk Succeed Elements Exciting Cameras Painter Upset Sound And Music Film Directing

Author:George Clooney

“Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.”

Knows Next Acting Paychecks Risky Business

Author:Kat Dennings

“Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of course, I did at one time of my life want it - and you realize that you can't do it that you can't just switch your personality that way, then you are in awe of people who can.”

People Ifs Way Want Courses Realizing Acting Personality Profession Awe One Time Time Of My Life

Author:Sherry Lansing

“Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.”

Giving Two Matter Joy Acting Give Me Two Things

Author:Anushka Sharma

“Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.”

Knows I Can Acting Love You Dad Mum Your Mum Mum And Dad

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Stuff Acting One Thing Proud Changing The World Trying To Change

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.”

Knows Way Feels Sometimes Jobs Mother Acting Talking Supposed To Be France Grandmother Know Me Aunt Not Talking

Author:Carole Bouquet

“Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.”

Needs Writing Dream Kids Games Rooms Acting Going Out Playgrounds

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Acting is pretending to be someone else.”

Acting Pretending Pretending To Be Someone Else

Author:Anna Paquin

“Acting is pretty much my whole life.”

Whole Acting Whole Life

Author:Carol Kane

“Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys and the art department guys, how they work and seeing their visions is really interesting. I don't think those guys get the recognition they deserve.”

Thinking Want Art Guy Interesting Acting Vision Seeing Special Effects Deserve Recognition Visuals Department Really Interesting Special Effects Visual Effects

Author:James Phelps

“Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.”

World Home Night Stuff Lines Space Interesting Acting Empty Therapy Space Between Empty Space Between The Lines

Author:Robert Carlyle

“Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Miller has died. Or you can come back from a job on the Isle of Man to be told by your agent you're going straight out to South Africa on another shoot. There's not even any time to wash your pants.”

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Author:Jamie Sives

“Acting is reacting.”

Acting And Reacting

Author:Stella Adler

Source: The Art of Acting

“Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.”

Ifs Acting Attention Listening Pay Attention Reacting

Author:Reid Scott

“Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.”

Important Real Care Acting Real Love I Care

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.”

People Acting Failing Fronts

Author:Adam Driver

“Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.”

Feels Acting Showing Up

Author:Tina Fey

“Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.”

Thinking Believe Important Hard Would Be Acting

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.”

Thinking Acting Instinct

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.”

Should Able Actors Acting

Author:Keith Hernandez

“Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.”

Acting

Author:Blythe Danner

“Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.”

Hard Actors Fun Challenges Acting Hard Work Elements Scary Scar Improvisation Really Scary

Author:Michael Pitt

“Acting is really therapeutic for me, personally. That's something that I'll always remember. I don't know how it's going to look, but I gave it my heart and soul.”

Knows Looks Heart Soul Remember Acting Know How My Heart Heart And Soul Therapeutic

Author:Crystal Reed

“Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.”

Want Feels Art Film Acting Forever Fields Sticks Priorities Top Priorities

Author:Jemima Kirke

“Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.”

“Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.”

Writing Feelings Waiting Acting Nice Bored Auditions Nice Things Write Your Own

Author:Emily Kinney

“Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.”

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Author:Britney Spears

“Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Different Actors Understanding Acting Watches Actresses Get Better

Author:Cameron Diaz

“Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.”

Thinking Way Should Actors Acting Appreciate Passionate Amazing Experiences

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it”

Art Acting Crafts

Author:Jill Bennett

“Acting is something I love.”

Acting

Author:Rod Taylor

“Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.”

People Thinking Trying Years Important Challenges Acting Careers Greater Teaching Crafts

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.”

Writing Wanted Lines Acting Rhyme

Author:Torae

“Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.”

Years Heart Done Rooms Acting My Heart Six My Family Performing Mum Living Room Six Year Olds

Author:Lily Cole

“Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.”

Want Ideas Bigs Might Wanted Deals Acting Attention Stage Paid Notion Work Out What You Want Big Deal Jockeys

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.”

Knows Acting Know How Industry Connections Work Out Insane Odds

Author:Kat Dennings

“Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.”

Feels Done Wanted Young Felt Acting Granted Teenager Cynical

Author:Sarah Polley

“Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends, people that we hung out together with, people that didn't like us or we didn't like them. We readjust ourselves.”

People Different Together Mother Father Acting Hung

Author:Tony Curtis

“Acting is something where you have to completely remove yourself. So, do I find acting easy? Absolutely no! Do I want to do more of it? Do I enjoy doing it? Do I feel appreciative to get this opportunity? Absolutely!”

Want Feels Opportunity Easy Enjoy Acting Remove Appreciative

Author:Mark McGrath

“Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.”

Art Different Form Process Acting Teaching Taught Method Elusive Systems And Processes

Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.”

Play Would Be Turns Fun Acting Roles Childhood Gun Horse Athlete Extensions

Author:Jon Hamm

“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.”

Motivational Acting Standing Dignity Theatre Naked Standing Alone Theatre Acting

Author:Rosalind Russell

“Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.”

Thinking Should Stills Fun Acting Careers

Author:Liana Liberato

“Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.”

Stills Character Courses Acting Boring

Author:Christopher Lambert

“Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.”

Way Giving Should Acting Beats Passionate Bizarre

Author:Stockard Channing

“Acting is such a high art, and coming from theater, I know how hard it is and respect the craft. I want to look back when it ends, and say I challenged myself. I wanted to be an actor you always remember, and those who are the great ones. That's just a personal journey. If you're too comfortable you're taking it too easy. The director can direct you for two months but before that it's just you and your internal drive. I want people to go to my movies and know it'll be good, and with great actors. You never know what you'll learn from just staying in the same space with them.”

People Art Remember Easy Acting Journey Direct Be Good

Author:Miles Teller

“Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.”

Thinking World Able Differences Acting Creative Huge Making A Difference Relevant Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Ian Somerhalder

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