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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

Love is acting stupid together.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

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

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

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.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

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

Acting is therapeutic.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

I'm addicted to acting.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Physicality is the basis of performance.