Acting Quotes

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

I got into the acting business very young.

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.