Best 3782 quotes in «acting quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.

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

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

Acting can be fun. Don't let it get around.

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.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

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

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

Acting has been very useful to me.

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

Acting is acting, as far as I'm concerned and, you know, how you manifest it is, at the end of the day, not the point. It's how it affects the story & how it affects the audience. And if people are hungry to be told stories, using, using this form then there's a reason for that.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

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

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.

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

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.