Acting Quotes

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Acting doesn't suffice.

Acting is something I love.

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

I really like acting in English.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

I started acting when I was 5, and it was always a part of my life. My life and acting weren't separate things; they were always one.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

I always wanted to go into acting.

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.