Best 3782 quotes in «acting quotes» category

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier could stand on his head and still not be you. Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body. We don't need for you to imitate anybody, because that would be second best. And second best is no better than your worst.

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

Abraham Lincoln did not contend that his actions were immune from Congressional correction; on the contrary, he specifically said he was acting beyond the present provisions in the expectation that congress would retroactively approve, which they did. He did not say anything like Richard Nixon: if the president does it is legal.

3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

Acting became my best friend. When I auditioned to get into college, the teacher said you belong here, Mr. Klugman, and to hear that word belong - I never belonged anywhere before - and suddenly I belonged in acting and it was so comfortable and I loved it.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

Acting is a mysterious process.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

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.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.

Acting, is not a profession for adults.