Acting Quotes

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.