Acting Quotes - Page 37

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

Acting, is not a profession for adults.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.