Acting Quotes - Page 6

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.