Acting Quotes
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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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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
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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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I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.
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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.
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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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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
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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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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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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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Acting kind of chose me.
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I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
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Acting is constant exploration.
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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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British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
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Acting is way of making yourself exist.
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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
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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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After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
