Acting Quotes

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.

I think acting is getting better and better.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

Dude, writing, acting and directing are such easy jobs. But to do them all as awesomely as Zach Braff does, well that... that's something.

For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?

I can't wait to retire from acting and just sit around and get fat.

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It's broken into such small pieces.

I don't miss acting at all.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.