Acting Quotes

• In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Victim

• Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Lying

• The play's the thing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Play
  • Acting

• Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

  

  Paul Giamatti
  • Acting
  • Silly
  • Dress Up

• In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Might
  • Awareness
  • Hyper

• You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Courage
  • Feels
  • Acting

• I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

  

  Paul Giamatti
  • Acting
  • See
  • Blemishes

• Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Different
  • Relax
  • Coaches

• I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Real
  • Persons
  • Disappear

• Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Capacity

• For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.

  

  Rico Rodriguez
  • Mom
  • Lucky
  • Actresses

• This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.

  

  William Law
  • Men
  • Angel
  • Glory

• My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • America
  • Because
  • Opera

• It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Conscience

• I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

  

  Stephen Dorff
  • Movie
  • Acting
  • Piece

• I guess I’ll still be grappling with my endless number of worries. But since I have to live in the present, I hope I can concentrate more on my todays — not just on my acting, but on my life. I hope I can become more assertive and expressive.

  

  Park Cho-rong Apink
  • Life
  • Present
  • Worries

• I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Heard

• Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Needs

• When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.

  

  Tracy Spiridakos
  • Goal
  • Jobs
  • Wanted

• The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Challenges

• I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

  

  Nicholas John Frost
  • School
  • Acting
  • Waiter

• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Feels
  • Teenager
  • Granted

• Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

  

  Nolan North
  • Character
  • Game
  • Realistic

• I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

  

  Vinessa Shaw
  • Children
  • Done
  • Fun

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