Acting Quotes

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

Acting means living, it's all I do.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

Acting is all about likability.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a mother.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.