Acting Quotes - Page 20

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.

Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.

Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.

We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.