Acting Quotes

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

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.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

Acting is fun. Don't let that get around.

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

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

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

I like to be scared. I don't like feeling like "Oh, this is going to be a walk in the park". If I ever get to that place, I'll just stop acting.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.