Quotes About Acting

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Richard II is something of a plaster saint and knows it only too well. But it is a rewarding part, with lovely things to say, and I thought it suited my personality.

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

had traveled to London to study acting, pricked on by the sense that classical English acting was the high-water mark in English-speaking theater. I would soon learn a surprising truth: I came from America, home to an acting tradition that my new English friends envied, to an even greater degree than I envied theirs.

Estas se corresponden con las tres perspectivas que discutí en el capítulo 6: pensar es normativo, actuar es situacional y sentir es existencial.

I like very much to do movies.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

I hear that George Sand is seldom at Paris now. She has devoted herself to play-writing, and employs a houseful of men, her son's friends and her own, in acting privately with her what she writes — trying it on a home stage before she tries it at Paris. Her son is a very ordinary young man of three-and-twenty, but she is fond of him....

The quaver in his voice was less showmanship than he would have wanted it to be.

He saw in this over-acting a kind of bluffing, which made him like Anna, whom he liked much, more.