Acting Quotes - Page 28

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.

Acting is a form of confession.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.

Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.