Acting Quotes
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I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
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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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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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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
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I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
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My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
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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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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 don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
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Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.
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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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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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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 like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
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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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I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
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Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
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The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.
