Quotes About Acting

I don't think of bouncing between acting and singing as a transition but rather as an expansion. I love both crafts so deeply, I feel my heart and soul have no choice but to explore both. I could never choose between the two of them. I am passionate about both for equal yet different reasons.

I was acting before I did music, so it is an easier transition for me in my own mindset.

I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition over to acting full-time was working at an after-school program at a middle school teaching improv and standup. So even when I had a regular job, I was still lucky enough to be doing the stuff I loved in some way.

I don't know that it needs to be a transition from modeling to acting. I think that they can both exist at the same time.

The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

I'm also a martial-arts practitioner, so it was an easy transition to go do 'Street Fighter,' which is action-packed and let me showcase my acting and martial-arts capabilities.

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

Now I know Hindi, and I can read and write Hindi, but the problem is that I can't improvise when I am acting because I think in English, so I have to translate my thinking from English to Hindi, and therefore, I speak slowly.

My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn't translate into many academic credits.

I am very good at comedy off screen. I wish I could translate it so that you could get to see how mad I am.

I really like acting, but logically getting on stage to transmit the work of a composer who is inspired by God is something magical.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

An actor with a genuine gift has the power to transport you from whatever your own pains may be into an entirely different world, freeing you from whatever you may be going through. At its best, it can be better than any medication.

A good script is important to the success of a project and how it makes it easier to get into a particular role.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting - not many, mind you, but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

For me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.