Acting quotes

“Thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“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'.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I've already received an Academy Award and I made a lot of money for the studios and enough for me too. I want to try television because I can control the product.”

Loretta Young

“I worried that I'd look like a dope when they curled my hair for the part of Manuel, and it didn't help any when Joan Crawford yelled from her car on the lot one day 'Hey, look who's here. It's Harpo Marx'.”

Spencer Tracy

“Zhivago was an awful part to play. I couldn't go to the daily rushes and see myself do that one big, good scene that would have gotten me into gear. I started eating my heart out, and I had a sort of breakdown after one month. I said 'David, you made a mistake in picking me', but he replied 'Trust me' and I kept on going.”

Omar Sharif On David Lean

“My first time on film was with Mirna Loy and Bill Powell in 'Evelyn Prentice' and a man with a black glass kept getting in my way. I asked Bill why he didn't keep out of our path. 'He's the cameraman' Bill said.”
Rosalind Russell

“Even as a little kid I wanted to be a movie star. What made up my mind was seeing Jon Hall do that high dive in 'The Hurricane' to rescue Dorothy Lamour. I was a swimmer, and at that time I was sure I has scales instead of skin.”
Rock Hudson

Every now and then when I start being a little vague in a crisis, my child says: "See here, mother, you can't do that. You're not one of those women you play on the screen. They can step aside from reality, but you can't!".
Billie Burke

“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
John Barrymore

“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.”
W.C. Fields

Just recently I got asked to do a film where the guy was exactly the same age as me and they go, "No, she's too old."
Daryl Hannah

“Years ago, I saved up a million bucks from acting — a lot of money back then — and I spent it all on a ranch outside Tucson. Now when I go down there, I look at the place and I realize my whole acting career adds up to a million bucks' worth of horse shit.”
Robert Mitchum

“If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.”
George Burns

“We'll improvise, just keep kind of loosy-goosy. You hate Christmas, you're gonna steal it!”

Jim Carrey - Grinch

If I ever start talking to you about "my craft" or "my instrument," you have permission to shoot me point-blank.
Drew Barrymore

“My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”
Sir Roger Moore

The kids keep telling me I should try this new "method acting" but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too talented to care.
Spencer Tracy

“Listen, I got three expressions: looking left, looking right, and looking straight ahead.”
Robert Mitchum

“If you have physical attractiveness you don't have to act.”
Raquel Welch

“Being an actor is always a struggle. Acting is the greatest profession because you're dealing with yourself all the time. It supports the self-discovery process.”
Kyle MacLachlan