Quotes About Acting

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

A good performance from me - no matter what kind of film it is, or who I'm acting with - will help me get better offers.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

Sanjeev Kumar is one actor whose performances have inspired me. The way he looked and the way he performed are two different things. That gives me a lot of confidence that look and all do not always matter.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

I acted as a kid. I always liked it, but I don't really have a performer's personality.

Yes, I mean, I can't match up to my mother's acting skills, actually both my parents. I just cannot match up to them. My mother was such a powerful and a respectable performer. They are actually overshadowing me and yes, I cannot be as good as them.

Basically, whenever I watch my mother on screen, I never judge her as a performer; I always see her as my mother and I become emotional.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.