Acting Quotes

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

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

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.