Acting Quotes
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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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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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I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.
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I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
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I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.
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Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.
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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 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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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
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To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
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There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.
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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
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The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
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Acting kind of chose me.
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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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Muslims who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.
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I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.
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Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
