1,862 Quotes About Acting

Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.

I don't really know exactly what the plan is... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Be it Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li or Jackie Chan, the proportion of dialogue and drama in their movies is heavy. They use their dialogue to show their acting skills a lot,

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I'm actually doing it. There is a point beyond acting, a point where living becomes important. When you're making a movie, you get up in the morning and you put on a cloak; you create emotions within yourself, send gastric juices rushing up against the lining of your stomach. It has to be manufactured.