Acting Quotes
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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.
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Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
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I think it's almost better to start acting at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.
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As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.
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I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.
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Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.
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It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.
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My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
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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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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I don't have a formula. Every time an actor wants me to hold their hand, I hold their hand. If they say, "Stay," I say "Okay, respect." You know? "I'm right over here." A kid, if I need to give a line-reading, I'll start acting out the part for the kid and just mimic the kid. You know? Whatever it takes.
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I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
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You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.
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In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.
