Acting Quotes

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

I didn't even know what acting was at 11 years old. I truly believed that acting was hidden cameras everywhere. And I felt that these actors on the screen were somehow real people.

I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

There is nothing worse than bad drunk acting.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated. It's a weird kind of vicious circle.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!