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Quotes About Acting

Andrew Lincoln is an amazing actor and turned into a great friend.
~ Lesley Sharp
I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.
~ Peter O'Toole
So I just play the character, I play the lines.
~ Fiona Shaw
Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.
~ Jimmy Fallon
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.
~ Christopher Walken
Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
~ Zach Galifianakis
I had great apprehension in locking lips with Namit on the screen. I come with my own prerogatives.
~ Nia Sharma
For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
~ T. R. Knight
I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.
~ Jonathan Tucker
We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.
~ Elodie Yung
When I was acting for the first time in 'Squid Game,' I listened to a lot of music. I listened to a lot of music by Sanulrim, Yoo Jae-Ha and Kwang-seok. In particular, I listened to the song 'Reminiscence' by Sanulrim a bunch. Listening to that song assisted me emotionally.
~ HoYeon Jung
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.
~ Barrett Wilbert Weed
I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
~ Kate Burton
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
~ Joan Collins
I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what sparked my interest in acting.
~ Mikey Madison
Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.
~ Eva Herzigova
I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.
~ NeNe Leakes
I've always been interested in acting - since I was a little girl.
~ Lauren Alaina
I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.
~ Deborah Joy Winans
I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
As an actor, I am always in one character or the other and get very little time to be Nana Patekar. So whenever I can, I love to be alone and by myself. That way, I get time to think and introspect.
~ Nana Patekar
Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.
~ Gautam Rode
Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.
~ Diana Silvers