Acting Quotes - Page 39

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.