Acting Quotes - Page 140

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

Questions about acting are difficult.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever.

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it.

Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.

We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I'm doing it just because I really enjoy it. I'm not trying to "make it" anymore. I'm not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I'm just enjoying it.

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.