Acting Quotations | Page 3

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

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

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

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

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

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

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

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.

When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. 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.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.