Acting Quotes
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
Billie Joe ArmstrongBillie Joe Armstrong I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
Billy BoydBilly Boyd I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
Beverly JohnsonBeverly Johnson I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you’re really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.
Billy MagnussenBilly Magnussen I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don’t already exist, and see the world through someone else’s eyes.
Bex Taylor-KlausBex Taylor-Klaus At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
Bob HopeBob Hope I’m a standup comedian who gets to act. I’m never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I’m doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.
Bill BurrBill Burr I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
Brett DennenBrett Dennen Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.
Blythe DannerBlythe Danner I don’t think being a good James Bond girl has to do with nationality. I think it has to do with a specific person at a certain time being right for the specific needs of a given script. It has to do with talent and personality, regardless of nationality.
Berenice MarloheBerenice Marlohe All you really have when you’re acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
Billy CrudupBilly Crudup In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that’s incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That’s the down side.
Bradley WhitfordBradley Whitford Acting is a mysterious process.
Bertie CarvelBertie Carvel Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
Billy ConnollyBilly Connolly One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.
Billy CrudupBilly Crudup