Acting Quotes - Page 151

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid.” “You act stupid.” “Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid.” “It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.