Acting Quotes

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

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

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

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.

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

Acting is actually private.

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

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.