Acting Quotes

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

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

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.