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.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film...

Anyway, that’s why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the...

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that’s fine, but they should do something else first, so they’ve got something to fall back on. It doesn’t work...

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for some reason, when I got to perform these lines and characters, I felt...

But ‘Hey Dude’ was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing...

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

Shortly after I started working as a doctor, I decided to listen to the voice inside me before it was too late. It was now or never, so I decided to explore acting.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don’t see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It’s actually even more difficult. You’re not taken very...

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

I know what it’s like to have a dream. I know what it’s like to roll the dice and say, ‘I’m going to go after this thing,’ and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting...

I’ve always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don’t ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven’t had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

The public are a lot of jackasses. If you yell and scream and throw yourself about you’ll always get a lot of damned fools to shout themselves silly. Just barnstorming, that’s what you’ve been doing...

Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actorsand play many parts on the stage of life. Everyone is constantly in front of anaudience — or performing monologues when alone.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer....

The light was crude. It made Artaud’s eyes shrink into darkness, as they are deep-set. This brought into relief the intensity of his gestures. He looked tormented. His hair, rather long, fell at times over...

I love acting.

So from an actor’s perspective, you really have no idea how you’re acting.

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It’s a job; you have to do your job correctly.

I don’t believe in ‘good exposure’. It is not how I was programmed.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

You’ve got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who’s been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always...

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don’t really understand the world of celebrity. That’s just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I’m at sea with.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn’t work out so I thought I’d take on acting.

It’s never me saying, ‘When is my day over?’ It’s more, ‘When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?’ The...

I always had a real love of children’s presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it’s my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for...

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

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...