Acting Quotes

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

I always wanted to go into acting.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.