Acting Quotes
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I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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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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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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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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Acting has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.
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Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
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I always feel secure. I can't be a pure actor if I feel insecure. I can't let other things take over my love for acting. For me, it's a giving art. It is not something which I am doing for myself. I am doing it for my co-actors, unless it is something like 'Trapped'.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.
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You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
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From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
