Quotes About Acting

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.