Quotes About Acting

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

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

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it's like taking on another person's life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.