Acting Quotes

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

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.

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Acting is what happens on the way.

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.