Acting Quotes

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.