Quotes About Acting

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

I love playing villains.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.

I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke.

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.

Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act?

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.

I've always been asked, "What type of character would you love to play?," and I've always said a pastor.

The voice stuff is super fun and I get to be anyone, but on-camera, I get to go in with wardrobe and sets and stuff and be in an environment that's not normal, and I love that.

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.