If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

— Damian Lewis

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

— William Hazlitt

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

— Shia LaBeouf

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

— Adam Ant

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local newspaper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

— Tyler James Williams

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.

— Bryan Greenberg

I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been perfect at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

— Vin Diesel

I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

— Karan Singh Grover

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

— Charisma Carpenter