Acting Natural Quotes

#1. It's an acting job - acting natural.

Alistair Cooke

#2. The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

Queen Victoria

#3. I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Katherine Heigl

#4. My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

Andy Garcia

#5. The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Albert Einstein

#6. It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Charlotte Church

#7. Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.

Riteish Deshmukh

#8. I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

Mark Strickson

#9. When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#10. You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar' ... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

Gisele Bundchen

#11. This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

Michael Strahan

#12. Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actors
and play many parts on the stage of life. Everyone is constantly in front of an
audience - or performing monologues when alone.

Bryan Michael Stoller

#13. I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

Judy Greer

#14. This feels natural, Kit and I acting on something that was already there. My eyes roll back in my head as he slides inside of me. And then I wake up.

Tarryn Fisher

#15. The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#16. I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

Katie Leung

#17. What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#18. When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

Michel Hazanavicius

#19. Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Jules Renard

#20. For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

Marisa Miller

#21. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Oliver Goldsmith

#22. I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

Russell Peters

#23. I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

Saoirse Ronan

#24. I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

Jen Kirkman

#25. I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

Rila Fukushima

#26. The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.

Clint Eastwood

#27. It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.

Evanna Lynch

#28. By Real Acting I mean an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.

Tina Fey

#29. I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it's something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.

Ksenia Solo

#30. I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.

Daniela Bobadilla

#31. Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

Garth Ennis

#32. Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

Nicki Minaj

#33. Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.

Thomas Paine

#34. I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#35. I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

Julie Benz

#36. Judi Dench is incredible. She takes acting to another level. She is a thorough professional. She is always smiling and cheerful. She painstakingly rehearses with co-stars and allows you to be natural.

Tena Desae

#37. 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

#38. I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#39. I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

Vinessa Shaw

#40. If one ... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble ...

Guo Xiang

#41. Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.

Kristen Stewart

#42. Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

Sean Penn

#43. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Marianne Williamson

#44. I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.

Betty White

#45. As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

Simon McBurney

#46. Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met ... I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

Pope Francis

#47. I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

Sarah Shahi

#48. I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

Ricky Schroder

#49. Duke was not what you would call a natural actor, but he learned. And when he learned, he mastered one of the hardest things of all - to act natural. And he does it so well that a lot of people still don't know he's acting. - Paul Fix

Scott Eyman

#50. I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Anthony Geary

#51. As Charles Darwin once wrote, a tribe with many people acting like givers, who "were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection.

Adam M. Grant

#52. I think acting is something that came natural.

Rene Russo

#53. I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

Sofia Vergara

#54. When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.

Hilaire Belloc

#55. What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

Daniel Radcliffe

#56. Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryn Terfel

#57. I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

Queen Latifah

#58. Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

Josh Gad