Acting Quotes

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

The play's the thing.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.