- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting Quotes
Acting is doing, not just saying lines.
These quotes frame acting as something physical and behavioral rather than purely verbal - even listening counts as acting when something real is happening underneath it. One entry traces a path into the craft through local community theater. Related reading in Doing Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started working when I was 17. After working for seven-eight years, I informed my parents about my acting decision.
- Modelling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The better side of Wall Street is when it is acting as an efficient mechanism of capital formation and capital flow, which helps businesses invest.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020