Acting Quotes - Page 59

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further with the music, I would manage to do both - I would have to take time off from acting because I couldn't do both at same time. I could do six months on and six months off perhaps. But I'm really proud of the record. I've worked on it for a while and I'm really glad to finally get the album out, having done three EPs prior to its release.

I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines.

I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.