Acting Quotes

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.

There's life after acting.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

I've been lucky to have some great opportunities acting with some great people since leaving Corrie, I have certainly been kept busy since leaving the street!

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

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.

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

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.