Acting Quotes

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

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 a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred

I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.

The less acting you have to do, the better, I think.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.