Acting Quotes
-
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
-
I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
-
I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
-
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
-
Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
-
Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
-
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
-
Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
-
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
-
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
-
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
-
I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
-
I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
-
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
-
Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
-
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
-
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
-
And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
-
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
-
Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
-
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
-
I just figured it out when I was approaching the age where teenagers forced to make major life decisions and I just went with my heart, which is that I love acting, and was lucky enough to kind of pursue that and for it to work out so far.
-
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
-
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
