On Acting Quotes

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress.

When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.

You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

God is only God when he is acting as such.

I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

You must allow yourself to start thinking BIGGER and acting BOLDER with regards to what's possible for you. Seriously. Don't wait. Start now.

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.