Quotes About Acting

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

I never wanted to become an actress to avoid the pressures of looking good all the time.

I came up with the Vic Reeves character for a stage project and people presume that's my name, even when I do other acting jobs.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

Acting was in my instincts, I presume.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I was on my way to law school when a friend of mine at an extras agency said, 'Do you want to come to this movie set and get paid $100 bucks a day to pretend you're at a party?' And I was like, 'Yeah, summer holiday, let's do it.' So I went, and on lunch, the writer asked me to audition for a role, and I got it.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.