Quotes About Acting

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.

I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

He did a very good impression of a stone column.