Apolo Ohno quote: "I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool."

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music caree...
VICTORIA JUSTICE

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it...
BRIAN BLESSED

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So ma...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I thin...
LESLEY GORE

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography an...
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they...
DANICA MCKELLAR

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I ...
MARA WILSON

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I...
ADAM BEACH

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you...
RYAN KWANTEN

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.
DAVID CANARY

Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new ...
TASHA SMITH

I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', wh...
DAVID OYELOWO

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't...
HUGH JACKMAN

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It's kind of hard to retain the feminine. I have so much respect for the feminine, but it's ...
LAUREN SOUTHERN

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easil...
JEREMY SISTO

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the ...
BILL MURRAY

It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong...
REGGIE BUSH

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that'...
MARLON BRANDO

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe...
MEGHAN ORY

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving f...
CHRISTOPHER PARKER

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - ...
KENNY WORMALD

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable a...
TONY KUSHNER

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it&#...
CHRIS EVANS

Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's alrea...
RASHIDA JONES

It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling...
MARK WAHLBERG

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but...
JEFF GARLIN

I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it's so relaxing. It's also a g...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world ...
ALESSIA CARA

In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something tha...
BROOKE ADAMS

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent...
KRISTEN STEWART

I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought...
TAVI GEVINSON

Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kep...
HAILEY BALDWIN

I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because...
VANESSA BAYER

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much...
TOM COLICCHIO

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's...
RANDY HARRISON

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppab...
KIRK CAMERON

When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s...
TAVI GEVINSON

One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People...
BILLY CRUDUP

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's no...
JAMES TURRELL

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belitt...
RHYS IFANS

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no...
EDDIE MARSAN

I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics,...
ARNAUD DESPLECHIN

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions...
MICHELLE PFEIFFER

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I do...
KYLIE JENNER

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able t...
MICHAEL STRAHAN

The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is au...
HANNAH SIMONE

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live the...
NATURI NAUGHTON

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it ...
JACK BLACK

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don&...
PADDY CONSIDINE

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
STEPHEN FRY

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT

Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look an...
OLGA KURYLENKO

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
YARA SHAHIDI

I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea...
CAITY LOTZ

I think one of the great things about 'Bridesmaids' is that it's a big studio comedy, bu...
ADAM SCOTT

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot...
LIAM NEESON

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents...
DYLAN PENN

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the re...
TOM FELTON

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other...
NICOLAS CAGE

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They ...
MATT GROENING

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate an...
CARLA HALL

You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ...
KEVIN WHATELY

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky...
EDDIE MARSAN

There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I ...
JARED PADALECKI

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for ...
KRISTEN STEWART

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
DAKOTA GOYO

I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER

A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference...
ADRIENNE BAILON

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they&#...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify...
BILLY UNGER

I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written,...
ALAN ZWEIBEL

I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire,...
CRAIG ROBERTS

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I'...
JOSH HOMME

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, ...
JOHN MALKOVICH

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent ch...
SELMA BLAIR

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the h...
HERSCHEL WALKER

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play...
CAMERON MONAGHAN

I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much tim...
FINN WITTROCK

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go...
FELICITY JONES

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a grea...
RALPH BAKSHI

It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that'...
HALSEY

It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ...
SUNG KANG

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby...
EMILY PROCTER

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew...
MAIKA MONROE

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I do...
BRYAN BATT

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full o...
GARY HUME

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

There's a lot of things that are good in Scientology, because I wouldn't have been in it. An...
LEAH REMINI

I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that....
MARK INDELICATO

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