Acting Quotes

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

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.