Acting Quotes - Page 49

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

When you're acting you always want to come across as if you're not acting. For me, my take is always to have it feel like you're watching someone on film and that comes with a lot of preparation time.

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.

The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.