Acting Quotes - Page 51

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason... I am so very delighted that it did happen... I would not have missed it for the world.

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I am not certain. And I was just impressed by, first, the story itself. I didn't know that much about films. But the acting, the director. And particularly, the cinematography, the black-and-white use of exteriors, I noted particularly.

Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.

The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.