Acting Quotes - Page 41

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy. People would just be like, "Oh, Skrillex is acting in this video," and it wouldn't work as well.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Acting is always a challenge.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth