Acting Quotes - Page 45

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

I've definitely had some tough schoots. I'd say everything that I've done has had some sort of challenge that I've had to overcome. But it's the most satisfying feeling once you have and that's what I love about acting, sort of signing on to it knowing that it's going to be challenging.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.