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

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
William Hazlitt

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Orlando Bloom

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.
Lindsay Lohan

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
Jennifer Lopez

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
Hugh Jackman

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
Ingrid Bergman

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson

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

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
Condoleezza Rice

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
Aishwarya Rai

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.
Jensen Ackles

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.
Elle Macpherson

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
Victoria Abril

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.
Johnny Vegas

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
Shelley Berman