Quotes About Acting

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

Love and sex and whatever, they are - different. I could say I'm in love with someone who is 90 years old and teaches acting and lives in Ohio.

John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I discovered I wanted to be an actor.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.

I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way.

Without my success in basketball, I'm nothing. My family, my daughter, my teammates, my foundation, my acting career - they all depend on that success.

We are all, to some extent, actors. We act in order to get what we want and need from the world.

For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.

When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

rinks, and variety theaters, often appearing as a "specialty" with their acting dogs, Jack and George. As part of their act, George, a standard-bred poodle, sat on a pedestal with an apple on his head, which he allowed

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

The goal of the actor is to internalize, to assimilate, and to integrate the accent so that it becomes simply the character's natural individual way of speaking. When

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

acting is an art, not a gift from God. Learn the art.