Acting Quotes

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

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

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

The worst acting is about imitation.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.