Quotes About Acting

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

I often think you need a lot of courage to be in the acting business. The job itself can be incredibly challenging for various reasons. Sometimes it's impossible and requires sheer guts.

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

The danger is in acting on what you believe satisfies the customer. You will inevitably make wrong assumptions. Leadership should not even try to guess at the answers; it should always go to customers in a systematic quest for those answers.

Sentience is brought into being somehow from the evolution of sensing and acting; it involves being a living system with a point of view on the world around it