Quotes About Acting

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!