Acting Quotes

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

How can you measure acting in inches?

I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.