Acting Quotes - Page 7

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And like everything else it's just like comfort level. The first time I did stand-up I was at a place called the B3 in New York on Third and Avenue B and I not only didn't take the mic out of the stand, but I clutched the stand of the entire time.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Acting like you don't care is not letting it go.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

Confidence sells -- people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.