Acting quotes

“I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.”
Frances McDormand

“I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.”
James Remar

“To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life.”
Vincent Schiavelli

“I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.”
Jim Caviezel

“I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.”
Edward Herrmann

“When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. ”
Jeffrey Tambor

“I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along.”
Ken Leung

“Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.”
Claire Danes

“Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.”
Victoria Abril

“One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.”
Ed Harris

“I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.”
David Morse

“I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.”
Eli Wallach

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side.”
Mark Strong

“The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.”
Mark Strong

“Every time I've taken a part for the wrong reason, money or prestige, it's been a disaster.”
Michael Murphy

“I don't think of acting in terms of making a living.”
Michael Murphy

“You mustn't upstage the bride.”
Sir Ian McKellen

“The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.”
Paul Bettany

“As long as the producers want me and the Almighty doesn't.”

Desmond Llewelyn

“I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in.”
Elias Koteas

“Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written.”
Richard Schiff

“If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.”
Bob Balaban

“I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.”
Ethan Suplee

“Acting is like a sporting match.”
Jon Polito