Acting Quotes
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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This acting was very hard work.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
