Acting Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.

Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

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

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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 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 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.

I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.