Acting Quotes

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

Acting is always a challenge.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive a used Civic.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.