Acting Quotes

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
Morgan Freeman

Read, Approach, Intuitive

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Soul, Sometimes

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
Jessica Lange

Done, Trying, Before

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Jessica Lange

Start, Pursue, Exclusion

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
Liam Neeson

Actor, Scene, Creatures

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
Liam Neeson

Thought, Soul, Artist

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'
Liam Neeson

Dad, Hard, Through

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
Sandra Bullock

Great, Person, May

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
Danica McKellar

Love, Done, Directing

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar

Love, Career, Main

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
Danica McKellar

Nothing, Passion, College

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar

Started, Born, Couple

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.
Lena Dunham

Felt, Quit, Ball

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
Francesca Annis

Experience, Play, Wonderful

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Denzel Washington

Weird, Favorite, Celebrity

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
Bell Hooks

Women, Men, Tired

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Ralph Fiennes

Love, Try, Movie

Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
Larry David

Long, Said, Honest

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
Nicolas Cage

Life, Energy, Quite

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
Robert De Niro

Live, Lives, Pay

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
Christina Ricci

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.
Christina Ricci

Film, Stay, Producing

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.
Spike Lee

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
Tommy Lee Jones

Work, Fun, Hard

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
Kiefer Sutherland

Experience, Play, Point

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau

Time, Himself, Emotions

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Making, Longer

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.
Nicole Kidman

Character, Mind, Start

I love acting.
Shaun White

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