Acting Quotes

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart.

I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

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

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

I managed to stay grounded and when I wasn't working, I was hanging out with my friends so I was still able to be a kid and have that part of my life. I didn't let acting take over completely.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.