Acting Quotes

I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician.

Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

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.

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.

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.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

All people are half actors.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Acting is therapeutic.

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

I'd probably like to get into acting - I've got lots of things that I could do, but at the moment it's just music, music, music.

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.