Acting Quotes - Page 100

Well, one thing that I like to do is treat the audience as if they're already kind of at the table - they're already a part of the conversation. They don't need the 101 explanation. It's as if bringing a stranger to the table to sit down with these people who are already acting as peers or friends and opening up and just sharing their stories.

Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

Actually I have to say when I'm acting, I try not to think about directing at all.

[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

Acting's more of a business for me now.

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

You do have habits and rhythms that you do sort of fall into when you're acting, but if you've got text that doesn't allow you to do that it puts you in a bit of an uncomfortable space and takes you out of your habits.

Doing nude scenes for me is totally fine. When you view it through the lens of a prudish, inhibited culture, then it becomes a little perverted. But the experience of acting is that you transcend your own experience.

I do a lot of motivational speaking for young performers and kids who really want to get into acting and performing. I always say, to be as versatile as possible, because you never know which skill is going to help you get a role.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.