Acting Quotes

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.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

I love acting and I have a lot of fun.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.