Acting Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

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.

There's life after acting.

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.

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 call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

I guess voice acting is just fun, interesting to say...but it is.

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

I didn't study acting.

I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of a way to express myself than acting is, by far.

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

You know it's hard for me to, like, act the way I've been acting. And, like, being, like, nice to everyone. And I think I deserve to be acknowledged for that.

Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.