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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

— Eddie McClintock

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

— Song Hye-kyo

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

— Morgan Freeman

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

— Mickey Rourke

My acting gives me my self-worth.

— Elizabeth Banks

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

— Ed Asner

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

— Samuel Barnett

Acting is something I always wanted to try after wrestling, and I felt like this was a perfect fit.

— Shawn Michaels

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

— Sibel Kekilli

✗Opposing Perspectives

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

— Tom Sizemore

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith