Acting Quotes

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.