Acting Quotes

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

I got into the acting business very young.

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

Acting is very start and stop.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.