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
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Paul Mazursky 
Jet Li 
Juliette Binoche 
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Horace Walpole 
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I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
Bob Balaban 
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I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
Michael C. Hall
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman
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That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.
Billy Crudup
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I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
Steve McQueen
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If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
Christy Mathewson
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean
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I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.
Teresa Wright
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Ricky Williams
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I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Tim Robbins
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