Best 3782 quotes in «acting quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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 extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

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.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.

My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.