Acting Quotes - Page 65

Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting directing, whatever it is you have to stay true to who you are because they hired you to do what you do.

None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.