Acting Quotes

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Acting scares me.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

I would never have changed anything in the past. 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.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.