Quotes About Acting

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

You've got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one.

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.

Acting is a passion, but I have been taking time off to direct once in a while because it helps me reinvent myself.

When I told my mom I was auditioning for 'The Handmaid's Tale,' she lost it. She was so excited.

I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.

The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.

I think that acting could be a talent.

During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it's been 99% luck.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I don't think I will be able act; I am not talented in that area.

The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I've ever worked with.

It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.