Acting Quotes - Page 102

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

There is a magic factor that is sometimes on a movie set, that is a really, really beautiful thing that cannot be compared to anything else, if you are somebody that is really passionate about acting or directing or the world of movies.

I'm very honored to play one of the women in the movie Volver, and it was special acting with all those other talented actresses. Carmen Maura is a legend and it was a thrill to make a movie with her.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. I think I've gotten a little easier on myself, or at least a little more usefully critical of myself. I think before, I just couldn't take looking at myself at all.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

Every director should take an acting class.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.