‘Whatever it takes’ is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it’s not my cup of tea. – Ian Holm
I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I’m just not sure yet about whether I will go to university, because I really want to see what happens with the acting. – Georgia Groome
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they’re able to believe in him in the role. – Hayden Christensen
If I’m honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I’m still doing it, and if I’m still doing it in ten years’ time, I’m sure I’ll find something else. – Harry Lloyd
When I’m acting, I’m in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I’m on stage, there’s no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it’s just who I am. – Harry Connick, Jr.
What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged. – Graydon Carter
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try. – Gale Harold
Every one of the world’s dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. – Harold H. Greene
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I’m naturally quite shy. I’m a quite private person. There’s this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who’s slightly shy or self-conscious, it’s the most frightening thing you can do. – Hannah Ware
I wrote ‘The Room’, ‘The Birthday Party’, and ‘The Dumb Waiter’ in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham. – Harold Pinter
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. – Haley Joel Osment
I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn’t. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd. – Heather Graham
Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush. – Gregg Easterbrook
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, she would look further into it, and that’s how it started. – Hailee Steinfeld
I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take. – Helena Christensen
I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human. – Hattie Morahan
I’m not an actor. Lord knows, I’d be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get. – Guy Fieri
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. – Haley Lu Richardson
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want. – Helena Bonham Carter
