1,862 Quotes About Acting

My whole life has revolved around acting so far!

Acting was a total mistake-it was just something that happened as an accident. I started auditioning as just an after-school activity, and somehow it just led to something more.

It was never my intention to remain an actress all the time, so maybe I'll stop acting pretty soon.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Those days acting was not considered a respectable profession. Only prostitutes and other such lower classes were associated with it.

To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.