Acting Quotes

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

I'd just like to carry on acting.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once.

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

When I was going into acting, my mom said, "You can't let that faze you. And if it does faze you, if you start getting upset if people say no, that's it - pull the plug."

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

Every director should take an acting class.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.