Acting Quotes

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.