Acting Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

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

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

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

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

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

I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.