Quotes About Acting

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.