Acting Quotes

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.

You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.

Getting a role in Harry Potter was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

A lot of times people will say, 'Well, gosh, you're really good; you should try acting!' And I say, 'Come on! I'm thesping my little guts out over here.'

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.

I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

If you don't love acting more than anything else, don't do it. It's not a normal life. It will take you away from your family, friends and life in general.

Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

I really take acting seriously.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

I'm getting out of acting.