Acting Quotes

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.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

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.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

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.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.