Top 1200 Acting Badly Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.

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

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.

Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

I treat acting as my job. I say that, as I have found there is a beauty in separating yourself from the world and from acting.

Yes, I am acting in my singles, but that is very different from acting in a movie.

I was on 'Junior Star Search' when I was 10 years old, in the acting category. The adult version of 'Star Search' didn't have an acting category, but for the kids, they had an acting category. It was the strangest thing. It was full blown 1980s, with big hair, mullets, and the whole deal.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

As I got older, I went to school. I started doing plays, I learned about the craft of acting, and I started to love acting for different reasons. I think I started to love acting because it brought me closer to people and made me more compassionate.

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

I can't even tell anyone how it feels when I'm acting, I don't mean to say that I don't have to try. But there's something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I'm acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It's like love itself.

I love acting. I think that's the best job in the world, but I don't really enjoy the career of it so much. You don't have as much control over your life or the material as you do, well, certainly when you're a director or a producer, so while I love acting, I prefer to make my living as a filmmaker, but my rule on acting is if somebody asks me to do a part, I'll do it.

I started acting when I was 5 or so. I just did acting for fun, not actually to be an actor.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

I wish there was an autotune for acting. That would make everyone win the best acting award immediately.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.

I don't regret giving up football for acting. I love football and am very proud I played for Morton. But the truth is, I wasn't going to get much higher in football. At the same time, I sensed I could go somewhere in acting. I'm 28, which is young for acting, whereas in football I'd now be near the end of my career.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is a really fortunate thing.

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.