Acting Quotes

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.