Acting Quotes - Page 27

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they're running for election.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the lie! ‘Cause you can’t get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can’t get nobody looking like you look, acting like you act, sounding like you sound. When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative!

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.