Top 1200 Actors And Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

Earlier, only youngsters were trying their hands on digital platforms, TV was a different thing for actors and film actors were looked up as superior. Now, nothing of that sort exists anymore... So, I will be doing everything.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

Voice acting is very creative, especially 'Star Wars' voice acting, because there's so much you have to imagine.

I'm confident about my stint with politics. But I won't leave acting, one, because it brings me my daily bread, and second, I realized that whatever little extra recognition I have today, it's thanks to my acting career.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Acting is acting, be it any medium.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

Modern acting is method acting, most of it. And there are sort of different schools, so I guess I'm not really from one school or another. I had a number of different teachers but they were all kind of drawing from the same pool, which is - What do you want? What are you doing to get what you want? And, what is in the way? These are basic acting questions. Knowing the answers to those questions. So you're talking about objectives and actions and obstacles. That's a sort of shorthand that gives you a language.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

I felt that I was forgetting about all of the stresses when I was acting, and that's when I started thinking more seriously about acting.

I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

That's the joy of acting, to bring something to it. That's what makes acting exciting. Just saying lines is not terribly exciting.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

When I was acting, I did not have any directorial plans in my mind then. But I did not enjoy acting as much as directing.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

I always tell kids, in high school or acting students, to do something else around acting, or not around it, just in your life that is of service.

There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

With other actors, I have always been respectful. Ayushmann is an ace actor. I love everybody's work. We are an industry of professional actors and filmmakers. Everybody is here to make films. I feel very good about it. I don't have any negative or bad thinking.

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: "Shoot, get back over there!" It made me appreciate acting more.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Acting is my world. Acting is my life.

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Acting is where my heart is. I love acting.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.

I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I went to acting school. I went to college for acting.

I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

Acting is acting, regardless of the medium.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do.

It's an acting job - acting natural.