Acting Quotes

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I got into the acting business very young.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do.

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process