Acting Quotes
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
