Acting Quotes

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

Acting is a form of confession.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Acting is in everything but the words.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

Acting is a youthful profession.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.