Acting Quotes

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.

Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing.

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too!

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

[ Angel series] really taught me that acting is not just about being emotionally challenged. It's about being physically challenged. And I enjoyed both aspects of that.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.