Quotes About Acting

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

No woman can be gotten with child without some knowledg, consent and delight in the acting thereof." Charles J. Hoadly, ed., Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, From May, 1653, to the Union (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1858), 123;