Acting Quotes

• To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Fall
  • Acting
  • Realizing

• Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Acting
  • Ourselves
  • Reflected

• I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

  

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman
  • World
  • Art
  • Drama

• Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Men
  • Team
  • Actors

• I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.

  

  Michael Pena
  • Would
  • Needed
  • Drummer

• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Scripts

• My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really basic, but I went to 121 auditions my first year in L.A. That is no exaggeration, because I keep lists - I know it's a little psychotic - of every audition that I have ever

  

  Ana Mulvoy-Ten
  • Advice
  • Acting
  • Keep Going

• The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.

  

  Nicholas D'Agosto
  • Acting
  • Authentic
  • Characterization

• 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

• It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

  

  Harry Stack Sullivan
  • Feeling
  • Acting
  • New Way

• Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Acting

• I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

  

  Norman Fell
  • Career
  • Service
  • Acting

• One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without having to be in the public eye yourself. I guess that's not completely true. If you're lucky - and I have been - there are book tours and lectures. I don't have stage fright, and I enjoy meeting people, so that's easy and enjoyable, but it's not a constant, and it's not celebrity.

  

  Debra Dean
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Acting
  • Program
  • University

• The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Kind
  • Actors
  • Useless

• In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Actors

• If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Acting
  • Fool
  • Ignorant

• Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

  

  Susannah York
  • Writing
  • Characters
  • Escape

• I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Important
  • Jobs
  • Strange

• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Dream
  • Honest
  • Hypocrite

• 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 that acting is a very humanizing profession.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Profession

• Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Film Actor

• Gary Ross one of those directors which lets you do what you need to do to become your character - he lets you try to do everything on your own when you're acting. Then at some points he would say, "Let's try this," or "Let's try that." Most of the time he just kind of let me try to just become my character on my own and it worked out really well.

  

  Willow Shields
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Acting

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