Acting Quotes - Page 13

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

I don't have a passion for TV or movies or acting. I have a passion for wrestling and I find it hard to leave that for TV and movies. But if it is a thing that is a short amount of time I would consider it, but wrestling is what I love to do!

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.