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

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Eamon de Valera

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

I do find acting cathartic.
Francesca Annis

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

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

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'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
Richard Gere

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
Richard Gere

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
Garth Brooks

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Whoopi Goldberg

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

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
Roger Bannister

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

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
Nicole Kidman

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
Nicole Kidman