Acting Quotes

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

I love being a human being, my time and experience here has become even more treasured since I turned to acting.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

James Remar is a student of life. I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.

I am passionate about a few things, of course acting, films/TV and improving the lives of youth in urban communities.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Acting has been very useful to me.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.

I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.