Acting Quotes

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep giving me the opportunity to act as I really love doing this.

Since I'm not a method actor, I don't actually feel angry or feel that I'm being mean, I just do it because I'm acting the part, doing my job and playing the role.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

I think that Brad Pitt is definitely a hottie. And his acting is so great that it makes him even more sexy.