Acting Quotes - Page 48

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit. There wasn't a ton of pushback about it.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.

The play's the thing.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.