Acting Quotes

• If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

  

  Paul Morrissey
  • Live
  • Acting
  • Camera

• There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer.

  

  George Clooney
  • Sports
  • Devil
  • Youth

• Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Actors
  • Radio
  • Backgrounds

• Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Guy
  • Reason
  • Husband

• 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 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 - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Acting

• Acting is reacting... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Magic
  • Acting
  • Skills

• With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

  

  William Boyd
  • World
  • Film
  • Acting

• Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Lines

• I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Artist
  • Acting
  • Accident

• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Comedy
  • Acting
  • Optimism

• The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.

  

  Will Forte
  • Trying
  • Situation
  • Favorite

• When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

  

  Noel Fisher
  • Experience
  • Acting
  • Dialogue

• I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • School
  • Art
  • Football

• I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Character
  • Learning
  • Identify

• Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Writing
  • Challenges
  • Difficulty

• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Improvisation

• I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

  

  Norman Fell
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Paid

• That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Acting
  • Knows
  • Secret

• In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

  

  Will Chase
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Worth

• 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

• It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

  

  Summer Altice
  • Acting
  • Yourself
  • Role

• I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

  

  Josh Brolin
  • School
  • Acting
  • Profession

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