Acting Quotes - Page 35

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

Acting can be fun. Don't let it get around.

Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

I'm definitely not a model. I just get to, in the course of what I do, especially with acting and dressing up and getting into different characters and doing one-off campaigns with brands I really love, I get to be a model for a day. I walked on one catwalk once, and it was the most frightening thing, because you're just putting one foot in front of the other, but it was pretty mortifying.

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor