Quotes About Acting

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

The whole acting game can sometimes be a bit false, and you meet a lot of people in it for the fame - so there's nothing I love more than going back to Essex.

When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.

Although I have not done too many films as a child artiste, the advantage is that you are familiar with the world of movies and it is easier to face the camera.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'

Even if I have played female characters, nobody has ever teased my kids.

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

Love scenes in general are the most technical things to shoot.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don't shadow the other person's face. It's a really technical process.

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.