Acting Quotes

Acting essentially requires feeling.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.

They didn’t really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.

Each man has some part to play.

Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I’ve played. I’m not. That’s why it’s called ‘acting’.