Best 3782 quotes in «acting quotes» category

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

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible for his acting, thousands of miles away from where he did the acting. The analogy would be if an artist painted a nude painting in New York City, and it was met with accolades and great reviews. And suddenly, somebody from Texas bought it and put it in their shoe store and it was found to be obscene in Texas, the artist in New York is responsible, and goes to jail because it's obscene in Texas.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.

Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business, which is where I am now.

But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further with the music, I would manage to do both - I would have to take time off from acting because I couldn't do both at same time. I could do six months on and six months off perhaps. But I'm really proud of the record. I've worked on it for a while and I'm really glad to finally get the album out, having done three EPs prior to its release.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.