Acting Quotes

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self… When acting, you’re someone else.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents’ place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

I ain’t the captain of the yacht, but I’m on the boat; I ain’t acting what I’m not, knowing that I don’t. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won’t. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain’t matchin your smile.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won’t be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we’re not acting on information.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.