Acting Quotes

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn’t really my thing.

As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.

I think cheating can inherently mean a deeper problem, someone is acting out.

There is life after acting.

I do love acting. It's my second love and I would love to do more.

I try to tell myself I’m not schizophrenic. But when I’m not acting, I’m not alive. Everyday is just not heightened enough for me. I’m more focused, more interesting when I’m working.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.