Best Acting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Acting kind of chose me.”

Kind Acting

Author:Isabel Lucas

“I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.”

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Author:Isabel Lucas

“I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.”

Way Play Wanted Levels Acting Dancing Meaningful Heal Broke Injured Violin Seventeen Ankles

Author:Kristin Lehman

“I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.”

Film Acting Doors Feet

Author:Logan Lerman

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

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Author:Matt Letscher

“I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.”

Acting Hips Zeitgeist

Author:Kevin McKidd

“I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.”

Acting Singing Entertainers Presenting Things I Love

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.”

Way Two Moving Easy Acting Schizophrenic

Author:Jodie Foster

“So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.”

Writing Play Actors Acting Skills Incredibles Lovely Fascination Darling

Author:Patrick Macnee

“The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.”

Way Trying Stories Acting Careers Roles One Thing Closest Juvenile Delinquents Delinquency

Author:Paul Mazursky

“I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Character Stories Bigs Acting Backgrounds

Author:Rose McGowan

“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.”

Thinking Way Happens Film Acting Skills Entering Technicians

Author:Jodie Foster

“Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.”

I Can Passion Acting Huge Direct Pops Intense Exhausting

Author:Jodie Foster

“I like to stretch my acting muscles.”

Acting Muscles

Author:Samantha Morton

“I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.”

Sometimes My Own Levels Acting Attention Lucky Faults

Author:Sienna Miller

“With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.”

Moments Character Acting I Realized Drivers Taxi

Author:Jodie Foster

“Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.”

Acting Selfish Consuming

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.”

People Different Character Actors Acting Comfortable Like Me Escapism Character Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.”

People Want Acting Offers Method Routes Method Acting

Author:Corin Nemec

“There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.”

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Author:Corin Nemec

“My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.”

Firsts Jobs Acting Paid Kevin

Author:Judd Nelson

“I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.”

Young Actors Acting Havens Young Actors

Author:Lucas Neff

“It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.”

Firsts Acting

Author:Nichelle Nichols

“That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.”

Next Acting Roles Skills Research Preparing Bonus

Author:Parminder Nagra

“I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.”

World Actors Acting Sea Elements Bizarre

Author:Sam Neill

“I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.”

Ifs Knows Want Actors Acting Doubt Comedy Dramatic

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.”

School Acting High School Yeah

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.”

Acting Class Acting Classes

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.”

Important Different Acting Gone Four Tools Conservatory

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.”

People Trying Bigs Causes Loses Acting Stink

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.”

Made School Decision Acting High School After High School Life After High School

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.”

Fighting Acting Careers Prove Proving Yourself

Author:Miranda Otto

“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”

People Self Belief Acting Careers Stage Example Goes On Affirmation Belief In Self Enticing

Author:Miranda Otto

“Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.”

Wells Acting Spending Revenue Deficit Imbalance

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.”

Way Kids Acting

Author:Will Oldham

“Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.”

Young Girl Acting Cathartic

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.”

Years Wanted Acting Class Saws Grew Involved Grew Up Managers Agency Michigan Missouri

Author:Evan Peters

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.”

Kind Jobs Acting Dad Summer Moved My Dad Hung Michigan

Author:Evan Peters

“Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.”

Acting Therapy Therapeutic

Author:Josh Peck

“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.”

Goal Realizing Lines Walks Acting Corruption Accomplish Testifying

Author:William J. Clinton

“I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.”

Kind Art Real Acting Serious Grew Grew Up Martial Arts

Author:Jody Hill

“Acting is an empty and useless profession.”

Funny Acting Empty Profession April April Fools Day

Author:Marlon Brando

“My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.”

Ifs Years Whole Home Acting Plans Montreal

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.”

Knows I Can Acting Gimmicks

Author:Alan Ladd

“Acting to me is real life - I don't act.”

Real Acting Real Life

Author:Bai Ling

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