Quotes About Acting

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Todo el mundo está cansado. Lo que pasa es que algunos aprenden a actuar como si no lo estuvieran.

for the clown himself imitated the serious characters

The truth is overrated." Vick let the purse drop into his hand. "An actor should know that.

I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

and watched Alan Rickman act up a storm in Private Lives. Someone once said that this highly mannered actor had made a career out of being brilliant in roles where no brilliance was required.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!