Acting Quotes - Page 9

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.