Acting Quotes

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of.

[You're voice acting] and you're screaming and yelling you can't help but sort of physicalize things. The next day I'm usually sore in some weird part of my body.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting.

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I never considered failure.

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

If you go into acting to make money then you're an idiot. It's my hobby and the fact that I'm doing my hobby for a job is mental.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

I was acting my way through the whole thing.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my cousins out of trouble by using my body. That was definitely acting.