Acting Quotes

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.