Acting Quotes

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

The people I worked with were supportive, and I'm flattered that you would call what I did 'acting.'

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.

As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

Some people think that acting's about being somebody else and I don't. I think this is how I would be given the same circumstances. And I do it for my own enjoyment.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family.

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.

I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.