Acting Quotes - Page 23

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

I'm just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I'm just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

A lot of acting is private time.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.

Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.