Acting Quotes

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

I have actual acting scars.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

Acting is a mysterious process.

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to have craft service every day!"

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself