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Quotes About Acting

I was filming 'Father Brown' when my agent told me about the audition. As soon as I heard the words 'Line of Duty,' I was so excited.
~ Claudia Jessie
I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.
~ Emma Corrin
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.
~ Scott Adsit
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
~ Scott Adsit
I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
For me, it doesn't matter what kind of role I am doing. I just enjoy the process of acting and filmmaking.
~ Akshaye Khanna
People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get a good experience, not just great roles.
~ Tabu
I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.
~ Gillian Jacobs
After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.
~ Brady Corbet
Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.
~ Jason Blum
I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
~ Sam Jaeger
I used to act in plays when I was in school and college, but you cannot say that I was passionate about acting. I was only interested in being a part of the group, and the group was passionate about filmmaking.
~ Mohanlal
I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.
~ Satyadev Kancharana
My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!
~ Michael Douglas
It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
~ Yami Gautam
I can't leave Punjabi films and will make it a point to act in at least one film a year there.
~ Ammy Virk
I didn't know how, I didn't know when, but I wanted to act. I wanted to be in films.
~ Denise Bidot
My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.
~ Kellie Martin
I was in my final year in college when I acted in 'Nanda Gokula.'
~ Radhika Pandit
Squid Game' came at a moment where I was really thinking seriously about my acting career, so I wanted to put this into action finally.
~ HoYeon Jung
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
~ Vincent D'Onofrio
I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.
~ Scott Adsit
I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don't think I'm in comedy.
~ Scott Adsit
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
~ Barbara Stanwyck