Acting Quotes - Page 17

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.