Acting Quotes

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.
Christina Ricci

Work, Great, Best

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

Everything, Based

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

Film, Stay, Producing

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
Christina Ricci

Work, Different, Learn

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
Jeanne Moreau

Fear, Fire, Two

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

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
Alan Alda

Good, Writing, Try

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
John Malkovich

Dreams, Someone, Said

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

Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Mind, Different, Place

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.
Demi Lovato

Amazing, School, Times

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

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.
Kristen Stewart

Time, Yourself, Same

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
Kristen Stewart

Someone, Find, Around

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found.
Kristen Stewart

Time, Yourself, Same

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.
Kristen Stewart

Life, Love, Cool

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

Done, Trying, Before

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
Jessica Lange

Children, Percent, Actress

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

Start, Pursue, Exclusion

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 love acting.
Shaun White

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
Christopher Walken

Important, Saying, Words

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep

Interested, Curious, Essence

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson

Time, Hate, Stupid

I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.
Amanda Seyfried

Fun, Mean, Different

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.
Amanda Seyfried

Life, Love, After

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.
Amanda Seyfried

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.
Amanda Seyfried

Fun, Mean, Different

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