Acting Quotes

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.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Acting kind of chose me.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.