Acting Quotes
-
'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.
-
Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
-
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
-
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
-
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
-
I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.
-
I do find acting cathartic.
-
The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
-
I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
-
Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
-
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
-
Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
-
I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
-
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
-
What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
-
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
-
I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
-
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
-
I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
-
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
-
I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
-
Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
-
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
-
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
