Acting Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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This acting was very hard work.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
