Acting Quotes

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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.

Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

We are acting on our desire; there is nothing wrong. Just remember if it does not pan out, if our desires go unfulfilled, it's perfect!

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.