Acting Quotes

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

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.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

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.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.

The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

I do find acting cathartic.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.