Top 1200 Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.

We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.

Acting... honestly, I'm so uncomfortable and so awkward that I could never think about setting foot in a theater room or acting class.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

I'd always keep going back to the acting. Once the rent was paid, and the phone bill, the next money you had was for acting classes.

After 'Njandukalude...' I had gone for an acting course in Mumbai as I felt the need to improve my acting skills.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

You know in acting you have those moments in a movie where a character yells or breaks down crying and you're like, wow, that's acting?

The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

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

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

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

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth

'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

I always knew I wanted to go into acting. So I dropped out of the modelling circuit and started taking acting and dance lessons.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.

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

It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.

I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially reliable than acting, it is art.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

I love acting. Anchoring and dancing have come to me because of acting. I came here to be an actor. All others are just an extension of it.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

When my films didn't work, I wondered what was wrong in my acting graph, and then I realised the dedication I had for music, I didn't have the same for acting.

I always had a thought about acting but it never seemed practical to take it as an option because I do not have acting or theatre background.