Top 1200 Best Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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.

I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.

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.

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?

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.

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.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

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.

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.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.

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

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

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

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.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

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?

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.

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

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 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 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.

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'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.

I think good acting is always character acting.

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

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

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

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Are you truly doing what's best for the nation, what's best for the Army, what's best for your unit, and what's best for your soldiers and their families? Are you taking all of that into consideration, or are you looking at what makes you as an individual look the best?

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

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 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.

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best

Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.

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

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.

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

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.