Acting Quotes

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

I love acting.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out.

It's best to keep acting real.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.