Quotes About Acting

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Are you crying? No, I'm impersonating a fountain.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.