Acting Quotes - Page 55

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.

I've tried to divide my time between the US and New Zealand, but it's difficult, and I suddenly realized that I like acting here in Los Angeles anyway. Because when you first come here; especially from New Zealand, you go, This is the ugliest, nastiest, grayest, smoggiest town in the world, and then your scale of beauty adjusts and suddenly you think, Oh, isn't it beautiful, not too much smog today!

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

I think the great thing about acting is that it's not all the same. You're constantly challenged and constantly pushed to your limit. It's nice to see how your body can adapt to these things.

I don't ever want an acting to be a job. I want this to be an outlet for my creativity, and something I just simply enjoy doing. I don't ever want it to become something too serious.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

Acting is a life of rejection.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.