Acting Quotes - Page 15

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.