Quotes About Acting

Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

Movies were the one thing that I loved my entire life. So I always knew that I wanted to get into acting - I just didn't know when.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

I did makeup for a plus-size model a month after I officially quit acting. It was just fate. The photographer was like, 'Have you ever thought of modeling?' It may have been the one thing I never thought was possible for me.

The only thing about kissing anyone on screen is that forced intimacy is never pleasant. If you don't want to be kissing someone, it's hard to get over that barrier, and so there's a reluctance to be that close to someone.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that.

I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

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

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.