Acting Quotes - Page 40

It kind of varies. I don’t have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I’ve worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It’s on a case-by-case for me, right now.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.