Acting Quotes - Page 149

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.

I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

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Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to have craft service every day!"

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.