Billy Connolly Quotes

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Acting is a mysterious process.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and really different kinds of work. It's more along the same continuum, for me.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

I feel like my home is stage acting.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.