Acting Quotes
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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I do find acting cathartic.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
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I love acting.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
