Acting Quotes - Page 36

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

Action and becoming are one.

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Trump doesn't understand the counterintelligence process. Take, for example, Carter Page. He's been appearing on television and acting as though the U.S. intelligence community monitoring his activities in Russia and suspicions that he may have been in league with Russian intelligence is an affront.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.