Acting Quotes

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Acting's more of a business for me now.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

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.