Acting Quotes

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.