Top Acting Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
Frank Langella
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
Tara Lipinski
My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.
Judd Nelson
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
Bobby Darin
Anita Diament 
Paul Greengrass 
Eddie Albert 
Kevin Bacon 
Washington Irving 
Paulo Coelho 
Brandon Routh 
David Krumholtz 
Bebe Neuwirth 
Bai Ling 
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris 
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I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
Tony Randall
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My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.
Rick Schroder
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In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
Paul Greengrass
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
Illeana Douglas
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