Top 1200 Best Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose 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.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

Looking back, I believe that acting was the best that I could do. It just happened. I kept getting good offers, and the going has been good.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is a really fortunate thing.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

Yes, I am acting in my singles, but that is very different from acting in a movie.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

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.

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

I always enjoy a challenging role and I don't have to worry about always looking my best on TV as that comes as part of the package when your acting.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.

I started acting when I was 5 or so. I just did acting for fun, not actually to be an actor.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of my best teachers. He was the pro. He approached it like a baseball player. Acting is a contact sport to him.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Well, acting on stage is very different from acting on screen.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

I try to think of acting in terms of thinking and doing. People think of it as, "Oh, let's get inside this guy." They think that acting is being, or feeling, or emoting. It's as much doing. One of the first things you do as an acting student is ask, "Can you say words and do a task at the same time, like sweep a floor?" You get to watch the human condition, and there's always a "doing" aspect of it. This couple, they're carrying backpacks, where are they going? Students? Or are they carrying instruments? It stimulates the imagination. So acting is doing ... and I forget how we got off on that.

I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.

Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

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

Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.