Acting Quotes - Page 57

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.

On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Acting was my first love.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

Acting is actually private.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.