Top 1200 Acting Badly Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't put in enough effort in school, being a crazy kid in college. But, I was good at it, so that was the other side of it. I would love to direct. What I've learned from being on set is more how to deal with actors than even the visual part of it all.

I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

You want things to go well at a new club but life isn't that easy. So if you play badly you have to work more.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.

When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

I'm more eager to have kids than I am to go back to college. I want to be a mom really badly.

I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.

I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.

My mom was very worried when I was starting off my career in the film industry. She never told me to not take up acting, but she would always tell me to have a backup plan so that if nothing works out in the acting career, then I can switch.

Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

I decided to not be so dismissive of my music in favor of my acting. Acting has been such a consistent thing for me; a lot of times in the past, I wouldn't have had the confidence with my music to really make it a part of my schedule. I would easily push it to the side, or I would easily take up time that was needed for it.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.

That's the one thing that's funny about going from modeling to acting. In modeling, you're supposed to think about what you look like all the time. When you're in front of the camera, if you're not considering that, God knows what the pictures will look like. With acting, you have to completely forget it.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

They screwed up 'Raise the Titanic!' so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won't cheat my readers with another piece of crap.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

My mum always had an amazing selection of make-up, which I obviously applied badly, on a regular basis.

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

Women behaving badly has always been funny, to me personally, so I knew I wanted to do something like that.

I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.

I would have liked to behave badly, to play football. I loved sport. But all my family were working for me to succeed.

I loved theater and went to Circle in the Square's post-graduate program for two years and studied acting and directing and I loved it. I loved acting and directing - I really like directing a lot. Some days I think maybe someday I'll go back and direct something.

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

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

I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

This country is in such trouble, we're losing so badly. No one wants to strike back. We need to be smart and fast and furious right now.