Quotes About Acting

The real heroine, if it be found possible to arrange her drapery for her becomingly, and to put that part which she enacted into properly heroic words, shall stalk in among us at some considerably later period of the narrative, when the writer shall have accustomed himself to the flow of words, and have worked himself up to a state of mind fit for the reception of noble acting and noble speaking.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

Sometimes, on particularly good takes, I'm so moved that I stop "doing" the scene and just watch in awe at the miracle of good acting. As I said earlier, that's life up there. When it flows like that, that's when I say "Print.

An actor who believes that he really is King Lear is emotionally ill.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

James Remar is a student of life. I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.