Acting Quotes

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining.

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.