Acting Quotes - Page 32

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.

Acting is a youthful profession.

It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.