Top 80 Acting Career Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Acting Career Quotes from famous people such as Corey Feldman, Hiten Tejwani, Angus T. Jones, Dervla Kirwan, Angela Sarafyan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald’s commercial.
Corey Feldman
In an acting career, you need to reach a stage where you can say ‘Thank you very much, I can’t do this role because I have done this before or I don’t like it.’
Hiten Tejwani
What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.
Angus T. Jones
I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries.
Dervla Kirwan
God, I love John Cassavetes. Throughout my acting career and continuing to be an actor and grow, I think there have been so many outstanding actresses, and I hope I can live up to the things they created and continue that on. I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.
Angela Sarafyan
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare’s countryside. It’s my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
Cherie Lunghi
Still, it’s tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
Beverley Mitchell
In many ways, Nog is a lot like me, like the way he goes after Starfleet with such tenacity, much the same way I went after my acting career when I started out.
Aron Eisenberg
‘Sacred Games’ has actually turned out to be the most challenging experience of my acting career.
Kubra Sait
My mom was very worried when I was starting off my career in the film industry. She never told me to not take up acting, but she would always tell me to have a backup plan so that if nothing works out in the acting career, then I can switch.
Kalki Koechlin
I had an acting career for a little while back in the ’90s. I had gotten into that because I was interested in acting, but I was not really as centered as I needed to be to fully pursue that career, and I was doing some films I thought were not of the best quality.
Shannon Lee
I think it’s really cool how J. Lo’s been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That’s something I strive for.
Victoria Justice
With my acting career, everything always seems to just fall into place, so it’s not about having to try really hard to get work.
Asher Keddie
Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
Ajay Mehta
It’s fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you’ve got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman’s beauty secret: joy in living.
Rosalind Russell
I have a long way to go as far as my acting career is concerned. Lots of milestones are to be achieved and dreams to be fulfilled. I would someday want to do playback singing, too, as I am a very passionate singer.
Roop Durgapal
I said, going into acting, ‘I’m never moving to L.A.,’ because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.
Michelle Pfeiffer
I’m honored to kickstart my acting career with Louis Vuitton, which I’ve worked with throughout my modeling career.
HoYeon Jung
When I came to Mumbai in 2005 for a holiday, I received work offers. So I decided to stay back and pursue a modelling and acting career.
Hazel Keech
I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.’ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer.
Christian Kane
I thought my acting career was going to just last forever – and I didn’t plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.
Lorenzo Lamas
I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn’t know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn’t know.
Angelica Ross
People always ask me if I’m going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
Tyra Banks
I don’t know how I could have an acting career with this.
Connie Sellecca
My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.
Shirley Knight
Using social media alongside my acting career has worked wonders on both ends.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
Sami Gayle
Ideally, that’s what you’ve got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.
Jason Bateman
When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.
Charlotte Rae
In my short acting career, I’ve been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
Jay Duplass
I started my acting career at around when I was getting stressed from my singing career.
Seo In-guk
I'm in control of things happening in my aviation caree

I’m in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I’m not in my acting career.
Lorenzo Lamas
Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women – as a career, that is – and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, ‘Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?’ and I applied to drama school.
Emily Berrington
I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.
Lili Reinhart
My father’s in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.
Christina Milian
It’s not so much that I’d like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I’m always playing down, but I guess it’s good because it means I’ve got a longer life in my acting career.
Julia Sawalha
My acting career wasn’t going where I wanted it to. I wasn’t getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.
Susan Strasberg
I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn’t get into RADA, I wouldn’t pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
Oona Chaplin
When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.
Nick Offerman
One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I’ve been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I’ve always been very keen to stay in school.
Anna Popplewell
I know I’m different. Even when I think about an acting career, there are so many limited roles to begin with. I have the ability to be Spanish, Indian, Italian, black, Persian. What roles do I see that compliment that?
Mya
When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn’t know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.
Park Hyung-sik
I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
Peter Berg
I was born in Holland, Rotterdam, and lived there most of my life. I started my acting career there, but to really be successful, I left Holland and came to the U.S.
Robert Wolders
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that’s all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry
I always had a real love of children’s presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.
Sophie Aldred
My father died. No one from this industry came to offer condolences to my house. No one offered few words to console me. Why should I continue in this cruel film world? I am discontinuing my acting career.
Suresh Gopi
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
Michael J. Fox
I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.
Christopher Plummer
I don’t think I’m misunderstood, but there is definitely a certain side of me that the press focuses on – my body, my hair, or who I’m dating – which has never really served me as an actor. It’s served me in the commercial world, making money as a model, but the media perception has really hindered my acting career.
Kelly Brook
Without my success in basketball, I’m nothing. My family, my daughter, my teammates, my foundation, my acting career – they all depend on that success.
Ray Allen
I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.
Christina Milian
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
Frank Serpico
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
Davy Jones