On Acting Quotes

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel. Consistency in acting in accordance with the Lord’s will is key.

An actor is only merchandise.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

The acting stuff is more important to me than actually being a big star.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

Meditation is the action of silence.

School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.