Acting Quotes
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.
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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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Acting is constant exploration.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
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More and more, acting involves a serious chunk of autobiography and often what we’re talking about is trauma. We long for these experiences in the theatre, for someone to be torn apart in front of us. We always have. Theatre’s at it’s best when it has that, but there are consequences to it.
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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.
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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
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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.
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In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.
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British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
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The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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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.
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
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Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
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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 wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.
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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
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To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
