Acting Quotations | Page 6

I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if... ?' I just come in and do it.

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

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.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

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

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.

I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.

Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to become an actress.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it

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

I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.