Acting Quotes - Page 97

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

Even though Donald Trump has won, even though Hillary Clinton has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat after defeat, the Drive-By Media is still there, and they're still acting as they always do. They are setting the agenda. They are setting the narrative, establishing it, and they are determining what everybody talks about.

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting.

I always wanted to go into acting.