Acting Quotes

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

We lived and breathed acting.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.