People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien Leigh

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
William Shatner

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
Ice T

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
Katie Price

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
Anthony Hopkins

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
Joan Collins

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
Joan Collins

Acting is a form of confusion.
Tallulah Bankhead

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
Robert Duvall

Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
Ava Gardner