Acting Quotes
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Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.
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I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.
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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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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
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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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I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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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 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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I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
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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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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 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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My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
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There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.
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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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I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
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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 went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
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I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.
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Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
