Acting Quotes
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Acting is a life of rejection.
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I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I just figured it out when I was approaching the age where teenagers forced to make major life decisions and I just went with my heart, which is that I love acting, and was lucky enough to kind of pursue that and for it to work out so far.
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There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
