Acting Quotes

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

I think I'm probably more passionate about acting now than when I was a kid. When I was young, I didn't know what I was doing.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Well, my brother started acting before I did.

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

Each man has some part to play.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.

I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better. I could use my voice - my entire body - not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.

I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.