Acting Quotes - Page 141

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

It's fun to get back to acting.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year.