Acting Quotes - Page 136

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

It's the scariest thing in the world, going to acting class, because first of all, there's a lot of pressure. I just go back to being that fourth grader who couldn't, like, sit still in her seat.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind of place because then you’re just acting.

My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I love that there are others interacting with me.

Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.

Acting is very start and stop.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.