Acting Quotes

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.

You know, I love acting.

I'm always open to somebody else having a better idea, but I feel like, if it feels real, then people aren't thinking about it and they're just doing the acting of it.

Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.

I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.