Acting Quotes

I always wanted to go into acting.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.