We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it’s something I care about.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people – most of whom you don’t know – sitting in the dark.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn’t even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn’t...

I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want...

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

I went to a very academic school that actually – when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts...

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera ‘Melrose Place.’

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

If you don’t interfere with me, I’ll always do something really good.

Acting is about animality. It’s great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Siempre me he sentido una no persona, y mi única manera de ser alguien ha consistido, probablemente, en intentar ser otra. Por eso he querido interpretar y ser actriz.

Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor’s search is a generous quest...

There’s no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual Deceptions don’t lead anywhere !!

I’ve always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

All the world’s a stage.

A lot people ask me, ‘How do I become a voice actor?’ and, well, first of all, drop the ‘voice’ because you don’t know what mechanics you’ll have to employ. If you can just focus...

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I’d made the right decision.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us...

There’s something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn’t do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And...

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into...

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don’t consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I’m not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when...

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can’t explain it.

Where I teach students in drama school, there’s a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play,...

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it’s not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where...

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah… Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting...

I hated the fake world of celebrities, especially those my age. The media plays them up in sparkles and happiness to make it more appealing so they can exploit you.At least that’s what my naïve...

What’s important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I’m...

Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World’s a Stage.)”[Motto of William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King’s Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, “Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.