Acting Quotes
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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
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Acting is embarrassing.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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Acting is way of making yourself exist.
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
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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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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?
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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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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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How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
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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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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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I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.
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Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!
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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
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There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.
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I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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I think acting is getting better and better.
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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
