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

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

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

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

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

Karl Marx: “Religion is the opiate of the masses.”Carrie Fisher: “I did masses of opiates religiously.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

When I’m not acting, I’m writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

I also want to try acting – give it a shot – maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a...

I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn’t want to be a lawyer. I...

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant...

Dear V.,I’m a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.- A.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out – I’ve not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

I find that as long as I’m acting it doesn’t matter if it’s for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I’m doing.

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was ‘Thirteen.’ I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That’s what made me...

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does...

I agree with Marjorie Rosen’s good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Each song, you’re telling a story and acting.

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

I moved to New York – I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like ‘8 Mile.’ I used to rap battle.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Maybe subconsciously I’ve kept activism separate from acting because it’s important to me in a more profound way.

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

It’s a big spooky place when you’re in it alone. It’s like you can hear all the whispers of all the voices of all the actors who ever played here. Kind of creepy. Like a...

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I do find acting cathartic.

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world....

After years of immaturity, I finally have my act together. As far as acting, it’s very slapstick.

Acting has been very useful to me.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn’t start pursuing acting until I was 17.

I will always be an actress. I couldn’t see myself without acting. But I’d love to direct and keep writing. I don’t think one has to be in place of the other.

Acting is a life of rejection.

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting with creatures that aren’t there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

I couldn’t get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can’t do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher...

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

The text is your greatest enemy.

I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that’s lovely isBut a brief, dreamy,...

It was a relief to inhabit someone else’s life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character’s problems would be resolved....

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough...

I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I’ve only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.