Acting Quotes - Page 154

My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really basic, but I went to 121 auditions my first year in L.A. That is no exaggeration, because I keep lists - I know it's a little psychotic - of every audition that I have ever been to. I went to 121 auditions and I got none. But who cares?

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don't really talk candidly about what's going on and the struggle - the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your face is always the one that's out there in front of the camera, and any number of things can happen to you once you've done your work. It can be edited badly, it can be distributed badly, or it can not be distributed at all. And I've certainly experienced that; every actor has.

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care

I never watched Lost. I just thought it would be fun to be part of something that was such a big part of pop culture. But I thought I was going to be acting with more of the other people. I didn't know that I was going to be on my own on the island, doing this whole other storyline.

Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.

We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.