Acting Quotes - Page 47

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I began to realize that maybe my talents as a musician were quite limited, or had a ceiling to them, whereas acting seemed to sort of stretch before me. I got very passionate about it very quickly.

That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

For women and men, but especially women, with on camera acting you have to look a certain way. You have to present yourself as the most attractive version of yourself that you can be, and then you're judged based on how attractive you are or if you are the right look for the character.