#acting

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#being #best #both #do what you love #full

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#color #cool #during #front #good

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#affecting #natural #off #only #simple

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#anything #began #classes #each #gentlemanly

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray. ↗

— Erin Gray

#acting #cast #first #get #had

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#actor #basic #essential #great #himself

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop. ↗

— Shane West

#definitely #giving #giving up #going #i

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram. ↗

— Allison Williams

#any #anyone #background #character #costumes

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go. ↗

— Allison Williams

#acting #being #brag #challenging #done