Acting Quotes - Page 16

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

I like to be scared. I don't like feeling like "Oh, this is going to be a walk in the park". If I ever get to that place, I'll just stop acting.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

Acting is fun. Don't let that get around.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.