Acting Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.