Acting Quotes

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

I do find acting cathartic.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

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.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.