1,862 Quotes About Acting

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Campbell Ogilvie has gradually relinquished day-to-day involvement with the club's football administrative tasks. He will now assist the board, acting as a consultant on strategic footballing matters and give up his executive duties while remaining as a director of the board in a non executive capacity.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.