Acting Quotes

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Never get caught acting.

I didn't study acting.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.