Acting Quotes

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Acting is what happens on the way.

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

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.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.