Acting Quotes - Page 78

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

My first heartbreak devastated me, but it was the support of my family and my second family, my church family, that helped me understand that it wasn't my fault, and that everything was going to be alright. That helped me tremendously later in life because in this acting business, there are a lot of things beyond your control.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

A lot of acting requires you to be a charming version of yourself.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

I'm always willing to dub myself in all the five languages that I speak for the international market, because I think it's better when our audience hears the real voice of the actor that is acting.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

Since I first started acting, I never separated a character's sexuality from what they eat for breakfast. I just think it's sort of silly. If I can be a part of helping to overcome that puritanical thing in our culture, so be it. I'm happy about it.