Quotes About Acting

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.