Quotes About Acting

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

The gentleman who plays it in the new Star Trek movies is great, but he's acting. Leonard was Spock. He was always the character.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

neither of us was capable of acting differently, and each viewed the other with an admiration that was inseparable from pity.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

Genius knows the comedy is all about being serious whereas others think that doing comedy and serious roles in movies are two different wide apart poles.

Men need usually full training while Women require often only a fine tuning for a scintillating acting in a real movie called life.

REEL life is a mirror reflection of REAL life because even in movies, the lead actor plays the role of good character only in front of camera but behind it in actual life, his or her nature is most often very different from that being portrayed in films.

Some publicly-known figure may even feign to be have fallen ill or ill-treated by someone to let the media churn out rumour mill to do indirectly and secretly the promotion of the acting-skill/show of that person or product or an institution through the communication.