Acting Quotes - Page 18

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be ok.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

Acting is not talking, it's living off the other fellow!!!

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a director has to go through.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

We are all Gods acting like goddamned fools.

It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.