Quotes About Acting

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

Oh, 'Sports Night' was tough because 'Sports Night' was... Well, you know, it's like Mamet. It's Sorkin. And I didn't realize that you had to immediately be off of the other actors' last line in their dialogue.

Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.

Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

You know, it's so tough not to be bit by the acting bug being in this film family.

That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.

The characters I play are tough, but I love laughing and humor.

I laugh a lot, especially between shots, and it's tough for me to control. There have been so many instances where my director had to request me to stop laughing and come into the mood of the scene.

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

I always felt Harrison Ford looked like he's about to shoot himself when he's carrying his own gun. He always looked afraid; he's not just this tough guy, you know?

Acting is equally a tough job but it didn't attract me. There was no question of not going in designing.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Acting in a heroine-oriented film is a tough job.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.