Acting Quotes - Page 73

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to come at you from the other actor. That's part of the joy and the play of it. If you don't have that it's a different kind of performance.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.

I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I'm done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That's what I get off on. I don't need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I'm pretty low key. It's all about the work for me.