I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
Christopher Meloni

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
Dabney Coleman

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
Elia Kazan

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
Matthew Vaughn

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
Rebecca De Mornay

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.
Tracey Gold

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
Katey Sagal

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
Ben Kingsley

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
Christopher Meloni

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Elia Kazan

There's so much crap talked about acting.
Ben Kingsley

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
Mark Ruffalo

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Elia Kazan

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
Ally Sheedy

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.
Michael C. Hall

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
Rachael Leigh Cook

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.
Piper Perabo