Best 3782 quotes in «acting quotes» category

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Money or no money, acting is my calling.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a film geek. I grew up making short films the same time I was acting. For me, it's a motion picture, not a play. I'm just as interested in what the camera department is doing and world building through costume design and production design as I am in acting. I think all good directors do that whether they're an actor or not.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

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.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

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

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.