Acting Quotes

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.