Acting Quotes

The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review a collection of songs and sketches preferably with a satirical bias.

When the audience knows you know better it's satire but when they think you can't do any better it's corn.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me Ma.'

All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.

By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.

There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi get me a Herschel Bernardi type get me a young Herschel Bernardi and who is Herschel Bernardi?

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

As an actor he should be an extra in police line-ups.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible, ' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

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.

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.

If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.