Quotes About Acting

But even as the words were coming out of his mouth, he was slightly despising himself for saying them. It was what girls liked to hear though. Every now and again Dex found himself feeling like an actor who'd been performing in the same stage play for far too long. The lines came out automatically, irrespective of whether or not they were true.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

The sequence of thinking before acting is the exact definition of the word plan. Therefore, speculating and planning are the same thing. A plan allows you to speculate with a long time horizon (as an investor), a short time horizon (as a trader), or on a spread relationship (as a basis trader or hedger).

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

She never saw more damage done than by folk acting on high principle.

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots ' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.

The age-old defense of men, blaming the woman for acting on the desire he had deliberately aroused.

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Professional Actors' Learning Strategies,

Even though the run of The Dining Room had ended five months earlier, and many of the actors had learned new roles since then, they still remembered the lines from Gurney's play that had been accompanied onstage by movement or gestures (as when Arthur holds out the spoon to Sally). Lines they had delivered while standing or sitting still, the Noices discovered, were much more likely to be forgotten.

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.