I’m not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Acting in ‘Star Wars’ I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn’t even know who the cantaloupes were.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

I’ve learned to get really good at this – say one thing when I’m thinking about something else, act like I’m listening when I’m not, pretend to be calm and happy when I’m really freaking...

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common – timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don’t get to write...

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, ‘I’m good enough.’ That became my mantra.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

I would say that ‘Shake It Up’ was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I love acting and really think that’s what I want to do. It’s weird seeing myself up there, but I’m used to it now. But otherwise, I have backups. Doctor, lawyer.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side...

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn’t really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family...

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds...

I was always going to be a dancer – I drifted into acting.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You’re the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

The best part about being a waiter is all that waiting. Use that time wisely. Try making it as an actor.

I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I’ll whip out paints. It’s tough to find the motivation, but it’s also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is...

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

I’ve never felt that acting was my vocation – never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn’t feed my soul.

I like acting very much because I don’t get punched, and it’s not real.

Actors today go into TV, which I don’t consider has a lot to do with acting.

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands....

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don’t look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist’s soul, my actor’s soul, I could capture something of...

I’ve always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they’re acting, you know?

Acting is in everything but the words.

COUNT ON ONLY 1 PERSON ..THE PERSON WHO YOU KNOW 100% WILL BE THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH OF LIFE…THAT PERSON YOU MUST COUNT ON IS YOU!

When I’m not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.

Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just...

I love acting… I really do. I love crawling into another character’s skin. That’s something that I’ve always, always, always, always wanted.

A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue...

Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your life right now.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

If you can’t get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren’t something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly wish I smoked cigarettes and was as clever and beautiful and...

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it’s all about life experiences, and I’m very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, ‘Okay, this is the...

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn’t reveal your own personal story.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

My first break wasn’t professional – I was in ‘The Sound of Music’ when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms...