Acting Quotes

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

Acting doesn't suffice.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

Acting is very immediate.

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.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.