acting Quotes

I think acting really helps as a director. It\'s just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, \'God, they don\'t paint behind the sets.\' It\'s a bit of a shame, really - \'Oh, what\'s on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.\' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

I got Michael Caine\'s book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.

The approach to acting is always the same, you try to figure who the guy is and then you try to transition your way into his way of thinking and moving through the world. The rest of it is just accoutrements, you don\'t play the makeup, you play the guy. If you\'re not wearing makeup, you just play the guy.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

I\'m curious what the acting world is like; I\'m so foreign to it that I\'d be curious to see what that\'s all about.

When I started acting, my mom said, \"If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world.\" I\'m incredibly grateful for the career I\'ve had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I don\'t really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don\'t think I\'m very good at it, and I\'m not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

On a television show, precise acting isn\'t the order of the day.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

I really do love doing stand-up, and I don\'t see why it should affect the acting. And I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that\'s different, rather than saying, \"Okay, I\'ve become known for this, and I\'ll just do this from now on.\" If I feel like I\'ve done this one thing, I never want to do it again. I want to do something totally different.

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

With acting, you have to become someone else. That\'s the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

One day, when I\'m unable to physically perform, would I want to pursue more of an acting career? Eh, maybe. But I think my home is with the WWE, being on the road and wrestling in front of a live audience.

I\'ve never worked with an acting coach, no.

I\'ve never found acting that difficult.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there\'s one thing I\'ve learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

I mean, stand up you\'re by yourself and it\'s live and when you\'re acting, unless you\'re doing a monologue, you\'re interacting with somebody else. Even if you\'re doing a monologue you\'re saying it to somebody and it\'s not live so you can do it a few times.

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I\'m taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You\'ve got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I\'m sitting down.

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

I\'ve always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I\'ve been doing since I was 5.

It\'s not that I\'m using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it\'s that, when you\'re living in the world, you\'re exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I\'m curious about those things, me personally.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don\'t know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, \"What\'s so funny? What\'s the matter with you people? Grow up!\" It made me very self-conscious at times.

I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don\'t know. I suspect I\'m still a reasonably good actor, but I don\'t really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don\'t know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you\'re acting, you\'re stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.