Quotes About Acting

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Acting is a life of rejection.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I've feel like I've been doing TV shows most of my life.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

My path was to be an actor and it's been very good to me in life. It's broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.