Acting Quotes

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Acting is what I'm living and breathing on a day-to-day basis.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

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

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.