Acting Quotes

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.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Acting is acting.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.