Acting Quotes

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I have actual acting scars.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.