Acting Quotes - Page 42

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Acting is constant exploration.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.