Acting Quotes
- Page 46Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
Seann William Scott
I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.
Norah Jones
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
Leslie Easterbrook
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
Danny Masterson
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.
Tom Berenger
Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
Ajay Devgan
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Edward James Olmos
The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
Dirk Bogarde
Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Olivia Wilde
I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out.
Seth Green
Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
William Lucking
I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.
Julie Christie
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Alanis Morissette
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
Vincent D'Onofrio
You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.
Lindsay Lohan
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
Lisa Kudrow
My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.
Katherine Moennig