Acting Quotes

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.

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

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

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.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

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

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.

I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting. High School Musical is what got me here today and I'm very grateful - but the fame part isn't so fun.

I think the best advice I got is that acting isn't acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.