Acting Quotes
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In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
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Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
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I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.
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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.
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I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
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God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.
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I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.
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If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
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Acting is emotionally draining, so I make it a point to not do anything when I am home.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.
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I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
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Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.
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Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.
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I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.
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I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.
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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.
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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.
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The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.
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I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
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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.
