Acting Quotes

"Acting allows me to explore emotions and experiences I’d never face in real life; it’s both terrifying and exhilarating." "You can even feel the tears on my face, but they’re not there. It’s just the performance." "Acting is happy agony." "When I am cast in a good part, it is like a vacation. Nothing can take the place of work." "Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago." "Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks." "Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be." "I'm not here just to be sexy, I really love acting" "Being an actor is like being a magician. You show something to the audience, but you never reveal the secrets." "Everybody has a different process. For me, playing a role is gaining a new understanding of who I am." "I think when you have to do 20 takes for a scene, it gets a little gratuitous there." "I made the decision I would act in films if I could act in the theater too" "Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there " "Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." "You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes." "I wish I could speak Spanish because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles." "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price" "I think the greatest fear of being an actor is being boring" "Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on" "The essence of acting is to communicate to every audience member."