Acting Quotes

“I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.”

“You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.”

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”

“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.”

“Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.”

“Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.”

“Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.”

“Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.”