Acting Quotes

• My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'

  

  Michael Potts
  • Genius
  • Development
  • Suggest

• All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Real
  • Honest
  • Driven

• Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Acting
  • Actor
  • Critic

• Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Different
  • Existence
  • Scene

• I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Time
  • Musical
  • Brunette

• Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Different
  • Character
  • Sexy

• I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Lucky

• I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Simple
  • Persons
  • Track

• The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Acting
  • Forget
  • Walk

• I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Breakup

• Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Partner

• Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.

  

  Aisling Loftus
  • Acting
  • Performances
  • Storytelling

• If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Quality
  • Acting
  • Courageous

• When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Scene
  • Cameras
  • Adults

• I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Acting
  • Dancer
  • Exotic

• Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Wonderful
  • Beats

• My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Figures
  • Marine
  • Heavy

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

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • Career
  • Careers

• I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

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