Acting Quotes

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.

I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind of acting I like to do anyway.

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.