I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
Sophocles

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

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

The good 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

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
Leonardo DiCaprio

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
River Phoenix

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
River Phoenix

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
Jet Li

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
Jennifer Lopez

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.
Lindsay Lohan

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.
Catherine Bell

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
Harrison Ford

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
William Hazlitt

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman