Acting Quotes - Page 8

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.