Acting Quotes
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My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
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I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
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Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
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I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.
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Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
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I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.
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Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
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I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
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I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.
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It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
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When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
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Every director should take an acting class.
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There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.
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A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
