Acting Quotes
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.
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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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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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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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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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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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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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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
