Acting Quotes

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier.

If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.