Acting Quotes

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

Meditation is the action of silence.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

I'm always willing to dub myself in all the five languages that I speak for the international market, because I think it's better when our audience hears the real voice of the actor that is acting.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.

I was on Stealing Beauty in 1996 and then I started feeling acting was something I wanted to do forever. It made me feel like I'll still be looking for parts when I'm 70 years old.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.