Acting Quotes

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I'm getting out of acting.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.