Acting Quotes

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Acting's more of a business for me now.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.