Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface.
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works very well in the boardroom and in the office.
I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.
I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.
I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.
If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.
I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.
My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.