Acting Quotes

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Acting's more of a business for me now.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be.

Actually I have to say when I'm acting, I try not to think about directing at all.

Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.