#acting

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#area #because #comedy #detective #done

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#acting class #always #class #high #high school

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#alternative #always #been #dancing #got

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#acting #boring #come #everyone #find

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#basis #blessing #considered #contracting #ever

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#costumes #favourite #favourite thing #i #like

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#age #become #career #decided #doctor

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#acting #definitely #i #like #lots

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#acting #anything #i #interesting #mind

I need to go where people are serious about acting. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#acting #go #i #need #people