Acting Quotes

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I still consider myself a young actor, I'm 34; I still view it as the beginning of my career. You can get infatuated with acting in a way that makes you less an actor than an acting appreciator.

Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

Acting is my passion and Chelsea FC is my hobby.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's taken me a while to learn how to pull it back.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people go through, and how their acting works for them.

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.