Acting Quotes

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Never get caught acting.

I didn't study acting.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

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

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Acting is acting.

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

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.