Acting Quotes - Page 29

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.