Acting Quotes

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

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.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

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.