Acting Quotes

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry.

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.