Acting Quotes

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.

Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

I always loved acting, but it's weird to think what I'd be doing if this hadn't come around. It's kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so I'm grateful.

Never get caught acting.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.