Acting Quotes

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.