Acting Quotes

I want to be acting until the day I die. I want to be in movies and working with people who push me to be a better actor. That's what I look forward to, and that's what's important to me.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.

Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

Any day acting is an amazing day.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

I've always felt acting is a part of music.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

Sometimes I love acting but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.