Acting Quotes - Page 10

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressing, being able to converse. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone that they're not, and just be what they are in given circumstances, that's all that acting is to me, and I don't think it's very difficult.

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.