Acting Quotes - Page 116

I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

When I finally awoke it was crystal clear to me that I had to pursue my love for acting on a professional level in film/TV despite any fears I'd had about it previous to the accident. And I've never looked back.

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

Acting for me is liberating. It's almost like therapy, because I grew up in a blue-collar environment where you're not supposed to have feelings. So it's freeing to be in a safe place like a TV or film set where you discover feelings, and where you're supposed to be open and honest with everybody while exposing the weakest parts of you. And then when people congratulate you on revealing the weakest part of who you are, then you start realizing that that might not be weakness. It might be a different kind of strength.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Sometimes I love acting but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.