Quotes About Acting

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I prefer exiting from projects that don't meet certain conditions, which primarily have to do with the script. When I'm disturbed, I can't act. I'm no use as a non-actor, right?

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.

I think, primarily, acting is like working out a muscle; the more you get to do it, the bigger that muscle gets.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

When I was doing 'The Prime Gig' with Vince, we played around so much that the director separated us like children!

I did not do a romantic role in the prime of my youth.

People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever.

I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.

I was definitely in acting class in school, but I was never the princess of the play. I will always remember: they always gave me the part of the gypsy or the old man in the corner.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

I've always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older, that's meant different things.

I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.

I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

I'd never done television prior to 'Boardwalk.'

I had a wife and children. I was mostly working in painting and decorating and then taking the occasional acting job as they came along. At that stage in your life you have to think about your priorities. It looked like I was going to have to take the building more seriously and give up acting.

My cinema is of a different kind: give me a good meaty role instead of two or three songs and running around in foreign locations wearing itsy-bitsy costumes. I'm clear and focussed about my priorities.