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
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
Hugh Grant 
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In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
Petula Clark 
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I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt Cobain
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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
William Hurt
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Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant
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Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
Donald Sutherland
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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
Swoosie Kurtz
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
Rachel Dratch
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