Acting Quotes

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

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

This acting was very hard work.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.