Acting Quotes

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.

I really take acting seriously.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.