Acting Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I didn't study acting.

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.

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.

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

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

My acting gives me my self-worth

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

The cover story of the magazine [TIME magazine] depicting a few individuals who are acting contrary to most Myanmar, is creating misconceptions of Buddhism.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.