Quotes About Acting

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.