Acting Quotes - Page 106

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Acting is what happens on the way.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.

Even when you're acting, you still need to be true to yourself because you don't want to put on a show for the rest of your life. It is a hard way to the top, but it is also very easy to come back down as well. Also, it is really important to keep yourself rested, and whenever you need a break, take a break.

I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

Acting is not my language at all.

When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.