Acting Quotes
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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.
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Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
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And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
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We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.
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It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.
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Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
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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.
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Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.
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Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
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I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
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I started acting when I moved to California when I was nineteen. I started auditioning. I was waiting on my manager at the time. I was waiting on her table, and she sent me on an audition. From there, I just kept auditioning and, luckily, got parts.
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I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
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I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
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Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care.
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You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.
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Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
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The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
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Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.
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I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.
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Every time you're on stage, you're acting.
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I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.
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Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
