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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Quotes by Harold Ramis

My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

Quotes by Hansika Motwani

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

Quotes by Hannah Murray

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

Quotes by Hannah Murray

I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of...

Quotes by Hannah Ware

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Quotes by Hank Azaria

I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and...

Quotes by Halston Sage

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

Quotes by Haley Bennett

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

Quotes by Haley Joel Osment

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

Quotes by Haley Joel Osment

I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

Quotes by Haley Lu Richardson

I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year,...

Quotes by Hailee Steinfeld

I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.

Quotes by H. Jon Benjamin

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

Quotes by Gustaf Skarsgard

I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.

Quotes by Guillermo Diaz

I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would...

Quotes by Guillermo Diaz

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of...

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible.

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Quotes by Gregory Harrison

Frequently Asked Questions

What different perspectives on acting appear in these quotes?
They range from discovering acting through community theater, to acting being described as all about being inappropriate, to a definition of acting as doing rather than speaking, to a personal comparison between loving singing and loving acting.
Is there a quote about discovering acting through community theater?
Yes. One speaker recalls trying bull-riding without much success before they "discovered acting through community theater." For more, see Always quotes.
Is there a quote calling acting 'inappropriate'?
Yes - one speaker says there's "so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate," adding that "acting is all about being inappropriate." For more, see Love quotes.
Is there a quote defining acting as 'doing'?
Yes. One quote states, "Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening." For more, see Doing quotes.
Is there a quote comparing singing and acting?
Yes - one speaker says, "I like singing as much as I like acting," adding that all through high school they thought they might be a Broadway singer. For more, see Like quotes.

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