Acting Quotes

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Acting is something I love.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Acting is a form of confusion.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.