Acting Quotes

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found.

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.