Top 84 Quotes About Acting Out Of Love
#1. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.
Donna Tartt
#2. As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.
Lisa Unger
#3. The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.
Mark Nepo
#4. Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go."
"My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.
Cassandra Clare
#5. The physical element of a role is something I'm super familiar with, and I love it. I've definitely made the transition into acting over doubling, just because I needed to make it clear to myself, so that I fully committed.
Zoe Bell
#6. I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#7. I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.
Aaron Paul
#8. Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.
Carter Jenkins
#9. My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
Aaron Stanford
#10. What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
Elisabeth Rohm
#11. I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.
Kristen Stewart
#12. I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.
Suzanne Crough
#13. Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
Susannah York
#14. I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!
Olivia Stuck
#15. I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.
Andre Holland
#16. I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.
Eric Balfour
#17. 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 Burr
#18. I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
William Hurt
#19. Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.
Taryn Manning
#20. Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I'm 100 percent confident in. I know what I'm doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I'm on set, that's when I feel the most at home and in control.
Jennifer Lawrence
#21. After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
Mark Ruffalo
#22. Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#23. I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.
Guy Wilson
#24. We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.
Stanton Peele
#25. Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
Kent Haruf
#26. I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.
Neil Strauss
#27. I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.
Chris Tucker
#28. I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
Emmanuelle Beart
#29. To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.
Sandra Bullock
#30. Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.
Kim Fields
#31. I really love acting. I really do. I really just think of myself like a working woman. And I just go from set to set and work. You have to promote a movie; you have to work. People are going to have opinions and it's weirdly very easy to kind of block out the world because you have your own.
Jennifer Lawrence
#32. It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.
Morgan Freeman
#33. I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.
Sienna Miller
#34. I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial penury for two years. But as much as I love it - and it's a huge sacrifice - as much as I love it, I'm in acting because I'm searching to do lots of different things.
Raquel Cassidy
#35. I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#36. I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.
Mike Tyson
#37. I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.
Jane Elliot
#38. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice-T
#40. Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
Tana French
#41. As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
Patton Oswalt
#42. I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.
Miles Teller
#43. I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
Dana Delany
#44. I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.
Kara Hayward
#45. Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
Tammin Sursok
#46. I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.
Paulo Coelho
#47. I love what I do, and for me, acting can be anything. It could be in America. It could be in India. It could be in England. It could be anything. As long as it's an interesting part and an interesting opportunity, I would love to do it.
Priyanka Chopra
#48. I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.
Emma Watson
#49. I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.
Stefanie Scott
#50. Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.
Edward Snowden
#51. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.
Lou Doillon
#52. I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
Natascha McElhone
#53. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#54. I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.
Ray Liotta
#57. If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.
Betty Eadie
#58. I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
Francois Truffaut
#59. I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
Amanda Bynes
#60. With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
Lauryn Hill
#61. I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.
Sinqua Walls
#62. I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.
Daniela Ruah
#63. I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus
Katheryn Winnick
#64. Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
Quinton Aaron
#65. I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
Sufe Bradshaw
#66. I don't want easy. I want the impossible. I want love so thick, I drown in it; it's the only thing worth having and, I'm sorry Kona, you're a nice guy when you're not acting like an entitled jackass, but I really don't think you're capable of being anything more than that.
Eden Butler
#67. It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.
Emily Blunt
#68. I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
Amandla Stenberg
#69. Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
David Johansen
#70. I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Chris Evans
#71. Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
Bill Hicks
#72. It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...
Peter Biskind
#73. I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
Daniel Breaker
#74. Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.
April Parker Jones
#75. I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
Alex Pettyfer
#76. What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.
Jessica Lange
#77. 'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.
Schuyler Fisk
#78. I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.
Renee O'Connor
#80. I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.
Terry Jones
#81. The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.
Taryn Manning
#82. One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.
Jason Alexander
#83. If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.
Johanna Braddy
#84. A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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