Top 1200 Bad Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

If you don't feel bad when you play bad, you don't need to be playing this game. That's the feeling that drives you to success.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.

IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it.

The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.

No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

If I play bad, then I feel bad about myself and I have to do it better.

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

I like bad boys... not really bad, but men with an edge... they should be clean but have that streak.

I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn't become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

In one part of my mind, I regret that there were 15 years spent not acting. But in the other part of my mind, I have no regrets. If I had been acting, I wouldn't have been able to do so many of the things I have done.

Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

Not every single person is bad, not all guys are bad, and I found my good one.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

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 love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

We have had 10 years of bad governance, and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

If reality TV is bad, so is Colosseum, so are the gladiators, so are sports. I think cricket is bad. But that's a point of view.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!