Acting Quotes

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

We lived and breathed acting.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.