Quotes About Acting

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.

Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us. I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness.

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play.

I will give you a little hint," Emma said with a wry smile. "A whore's trick, but a good one. It's a part that you're playing, like a grand actress on the stage. It isn't you. It has nothing to do with you. You're simply using your body in service to something necessary. You can smile and flirt and dance and pretend you're someone entirely different, and it won't matter. You, the real you, will still be safe inside.

My compliments, Alek said slowly and evenly. Your contempt was most convincing. I am your servant.