Quotes About Acting

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?" and I say, "You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom."

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

The cover story of the magazine [TIME magazine] depicting a few individuals who are acting contrary to most Myanmar, is creating misconceptions of Buddhism.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Vi?as ?st? dz?ve bija lomas, ko vi?a t?loja, vi?a jut?s dz?v?ka, kad iedvesa dz?v?bu savos t?los, n?s?ja tos sev?, kam?r pati dz?voja savu parasto dz?vi.

When he had been made the acting Consigliori, the other powerful Sicilian Families referred contemptuously to the Corleone Family as the "Irish gang." This had amused Hagen.

she'd had to play along, to pretend—convincingly—sympathy and even amity.

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.

To be always acting a part rather than living her own life was to her everything.