Acting Quotes - Page 43

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do. They may inadvertently do it, but it's because of the script, not the acting.

I want to be acting until the day I die!

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.