Acting Quotes

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

Acting is constant exploration.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive a used Civic.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.