Acting Quotes - Page 68

I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

I didn't study acting.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.