Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Denzel Washington

Family is life; acting is making a living.
Denzel Washington

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Denzel Washington

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
Denzel Washington

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
Christopher Walken

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
Christopher Walken

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Ralph Nader

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
Stella Adler

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
Shia LaBeouf

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
Mickey Rourke

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
Mickey Rourke

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry

I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Meryl Streep

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep