Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I always say if you’ve seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there’s just not enough time. You don’t have any preparation.

If you’re used to being a maverick, then people don’t get surprised when you start acting strangely.

Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say ‘You did so much better than I thought you would.’ So there’s an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I’m willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I...

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page....

I have only one rule in acting–trust the director, and give him heart and soul.

You know, I love acting.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it’s just a big play.

I’ve had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

Congress needs to act now. Seriously, leave Washington DC, move to Hollywood, and leave the rest of the country alone.

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.