Quotes About Acting

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

a word, I treated everybody, of whatever social position, as an equal. This behavior was a heavy strain on me as all acting is to the unaccustomed, but it surely was worth the trouble.

Stanislavski called this the "Magic if …," the daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything seems possible.

Ä°stediÄŸi zaman gözyaÅŸlar?n? içine ak?t?p gülümseyebilme yeteneÄŸine sahip olmuÅŸtu.Bu yüzden de gözyaÅŸlar?n?n gerçek olup olmad???n? o da anlam?yordu. Oscar'l? bir oyuncu gibiydi.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Karl Malden once said the hardest thing he ever had to do as an actor was act as if he didn't know he was about to be hit in the head with a beer can.

And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted out like a gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle would do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.

John Adams said that if Washington "was not the greatest president, he was the best actor of the presidency we have ever had.

Jugaban ingenua y burlonamente al amor, sin sospechar lo más mínimo que eran cómo actores que, en broma, habrían al día siguiente de representar una tragedia

So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not.

What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Now acting proud and now submissive, By turns attentive and dismissive! How languid, when no word he said, How fiery, when he spoke, instead, In letters of the heart how casual!

Catherine wished to discover whether her son were really ill or feigning. But he, worthy son of such a mother, played his part to perfection. She had wept, he had a fever.