Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
Christian Bale

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
Ewan McGregor

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
Ewan McGregor

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.
Wentworth Miller

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
Wentworth Miller

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
Wentworth Miller

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
Wentworth Miller

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
Vanessa Hudgens

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
Angela Carter

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.
Sophia Bush

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski

You see, I've never really studied acting.
Diana Ross

Acting is something I love.
Rod Taylor

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
Catherine Deneuve

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
Catherine Deneuve

Acting is way of making yourself exist.
Stephen Rea

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant