Quotes on Acting

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

Author: Eddie Albert

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

Author: Kirstie Alley

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Author: Loni Anderson

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Author: Loni Anderson

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

Author: Ursula Andress

I do find acting cathartic.

Author: Francesca Annis

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

Author: Joan Ark

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Author: Jane Asher

Acting has been very useful to me.

Author: Jane Asher

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

Author: Elizabeth Ashley

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Author: Armand Assante

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Author: Armand Assante

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Author: W. Auden

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Author: Kevin Bacon

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

Author: Jane Badler

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Author: Bob Balaban

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

Author: Alec Baldwin

Acting is a form of confusion.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

Acting is a form of confession.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Author: Ellen Barkin

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

Author: Alan Bates

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

Author: Catherine Bell

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Author: Monica Bellucci

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

Author: Tom Berenger

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Author: Ingrid Bergman

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

Author: Corbin Bernsen

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

Author: Jason Biggs

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

Author: Juliette Binoche

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

Author: Eric Bogosian

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

Author: Eric Bogosian

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

Author: John Boorman

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

Author: Caprice Bourret

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.

Author: Jeff Bridges

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

Author: Wilford Brimley

For me, acting is doing.

Author: Pierce Brosnan

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Author: Pierce Brosnan

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

Author: Genevieve Bujold

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Author: Sandra Bullock

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Author: Martin Buren

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Author: William Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Author: William Burroughs

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

Author: Steve Buscemi

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

Author: Steve Buscemi

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

Author: Gabriel Byrne

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

Author: Lord Byron

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

Author: James Caan

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Author: Scott Caan

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

Author: Dean Cain

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

Author: David Canary

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Author: Orson Card

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

Author: Kim Carnes

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

Author: Tia Carrere

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

Author: Lacey Chabert

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Author: Joan Chen

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.

Author: Joan Chen

Acting is actually private.

Author: Joan Chen

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

Author: Melanie Chisholm

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.

Author: Hayden Christensen

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Author: Helena Christensen

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

Author: Julie Christie

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

Author: Charles Churchill

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

Author: Petula Clark

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

Author: John Cleese

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Author: John Cleese

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Author: Kurt Cobain

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

Author: James Coburn

The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

Author: Dabney Coleman

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

Author: Dabney Coleman

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Author: Dabney Coleman

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

Author: Dabney Coleman

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

Author: Gary Coleman

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Author: Stephen Collins

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

Author: Perry Como

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

Author: Rachael Cook

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

Author: Rachael Cook

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Author: Alistair Cooke

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Author: Coolio

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

Author: Jackie Cooper

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

Author: John Corbett

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

Author: Nikki Cox

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Author: Martin Creveld

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Author: Tom Cruise

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

Author: Billy Crystal

I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

Author: Maria Cucinotta

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.

Author: Andrew Cuomo

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

Author: Cyril Cusack

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Author: Claire Danes

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Author: Blythe Danner

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

Author: Blythe Danner

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

Author: Bobby Darin

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

Author: Larry David

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

Author: Alan Davies

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Author: Bette Davis

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

Author: Kristin Davis

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Author: James Dean

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

Author: James Denton

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Author: Chauncey Depew

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Author: Johnny Depp

In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

Author: Bruce Dern

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

Author: Ajay Devgan

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

Author: Cameron Diaz

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Author: Cameron Diaz

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

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.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Author: Micky Dolenz

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

Author: Stephen Dorff

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.

Author: Lesley-Anne Down

Acting is always a challenge.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

Author: Rachel Dratch

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Author: Elaine Dundy

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Author: Will Durant

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.

Author: Eliza Dushku

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Author: Charles Dutton

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

Author: Shelley Duvall

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

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.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

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.

Author: Leslie Easterbrook

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Author: Leslie Easterbrook

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

Author: Chiwetel Ejiofor

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Author: Bret Ellis

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

Author: Edie Falco

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

Author: Dennis Farina

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Author: William Faulkner

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

Author: Ralph Fiennes

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Author: Robbie Fowler

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Author: Michael Fox

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Author: James Franco

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Author: James Franco

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

Author: Brendan Fraser

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Author: Morgan Freeman

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.

Author: Morgan Freeman

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Author: Stephen Fry

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

Author: Megan Gallagher

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Author: Megan Gallagher

I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

Author: Victor Garber

I'm very serious about acting.

Author: Victor Garber

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

Author: Jim Garrison

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Author: Richard Gere

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

Author: Richard Gere

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

Author: Jim Gerlach