Acting Quotes

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

That's the beautiful part about acting - you get to play somebody other than yourself. So, I'm open to people who can't sing, people who can, people that sing a little bit, or people that sing a lot.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don't already exist, and see the world through someone else's eyes.

With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

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.

All the world's a stage.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

A lot of acting is private time.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

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.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

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.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.