Acting Quotes - Page 138

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

The thing that I am most passionate about would be acting.

I love acting so much more than singing, and hopefully I'd be able to venture into that properly.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

At 15, you have to decide if you're going to go into professional dancing and really pursue it. I just a) knew that I couldn't stop acting, and b) I had that sort of foresight to understand that when I was 35 - if I was lucky and if I hadn't gotten injured - my career would be on its way to ending. Now, at 34, I really understand that. But at 15, I understood that as well. I was like, "I can't. That's just too risky.".

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.