Acting Quotes

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

Questions about acting are difficult.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.

And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model.

I'm really thirsty to go on tour! I love putting on a show. If the crowd ain't acting bougie, I love performing.

Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want to do?

Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

I'm a firm believer in God and I don't think he'd want me acting a certain way.

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.