Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice

If someone praises me for my acting, all I say is thanks and in case of criticism, I do apologize.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

After 'Amen' people started recognising me. It made me think that acting is better than direction.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

[Voice acting] is such an easy job. It's like stealing money, really. Which I'm always happy to do.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

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