I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn’t until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do. – Torrey DeVitto
There’s acting, and then there’s auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part. – Teddy Sears
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. – William S. Burroughs
Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day. – Stephen Fry
You don’t have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you’re younger you don’t want to look a fool, so you don’t do things that might make you vulnerable. – Tom Wilkinson
Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting. – Sandra Echeverria
Acting is something I always wanted to try after wrestling, and I felt like this was a perfect fit. – Shawn Michaels
Increasingly I’ve come to think that what’s at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it’s feeling. – Simon Callow