Acting Quotes

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me.

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

Acting is such a weird job.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither one acting as servant to the other.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

A lot of people don't make the correlation between acting and modeling, they think of them as two separate things. But I really believe that a model is an actress.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

If I weren't acting I'd be a very unhappy, unfulfilled woman.

I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.