1,862 Quotes About Acting

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

I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.

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.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

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 on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.