Acting Quotes

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.