Acting Quotes

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

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.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

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

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

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

Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

Acting can be fun. Don't let it get around.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.