Acting Quotes - Page 58

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

I got into the acting business very young.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.