Acting Quotes

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

There are people out there who have been trying to pursue acting, but they've said stuff like, Oh, we're not looking for anybody with your race. But now, we're all here to show the truth.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Acting kind of chose me.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I love acting. I love performing.

I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

There was no sacrifice in acting for me, even when I was starving in New York. I went three days without eating. Charlie Bronson and I sold blood for $5 so that we could eat.

I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to me. I enjoy it. I am very confident in my work.

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.