Acting Quotes

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

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.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

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.

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

I never put myself on another level and that's done well for me. Just spending time with fans and acting normal and talking to them just like I was one of their boys, that's what it's all about.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.