Acting Quotes

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

Acting is kind of brutal.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

When it comes to our Constitution, judges perform, certainly, an important role. But the people, acting through their elected representatives, should play an even more important role.

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

Acting is not my language at all.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Acting is what happens on the way.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.

I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.