Acting Quotes

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. 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.

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I'm getting out of acting.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.