Quotes About Acting

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

This is not a date; this is an audition for a play about a terrible date.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common—this is my symphony.

Father, you do not have to be a villain to act one in a play . . .

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers ' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

It was cool to do someone else's movie. It was a lot of fun.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.