Acting Quotes - Page 12

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

The biggest thing when you're playing live is that you're sitting across from the player and can get a detailed impression of how they're acting, and whether they're expressing strength or weakness. Online, it's much more about betting patterns and you're using a much narrower range of cues to what they're holding and thinking.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.