Acting Quotes

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out.

It's best to keep acting real.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.