Acting Quotes

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable.

...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor.

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

It's fun to get back to acting.

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.