Quotes About Acting

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'

Directing a television episode is no joke, and it's incredibly difficult and especially when you're acting in it as well.

I usually joke around, especially on set.

I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.

'Friends' was great fun, but I was just there so they could make some funny jokes about England.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I've done a lot of different characters, but people never recognize me. I'm not joking.

Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.

let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty can be a Steinbeck, a Faulkner, or a Hemingway. An actor at sixty can make a funny face or do a creaky dance. The actor lives a reasonable-facsimile existence while cavorting in an unreal world. The value of an actor's services are determined by the needs of another person.

If all the world is a stage, then acting, allowing ourselves to be touched by the experiences of others, is the means by which the world can become connected in understanding and love

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

They are qualities of a fictional character who is very different from me. This is a mirage called acting. Surrounded by another mirage called celeberty." The young woman speaks again. "I thought this wasn't about you?" She challenges.

And all the qualities she loved about me … they're not real. They are the qualities of a fictional character who is actually very, very different from me. This is a mirage called acting. Surrounded by another mirage called celebrity.

My shortcomings are no excuse for others acting in that way," Wallander said. "Not my superior in any case.

Generosity is a giving that comes from the knowledge of an intimate bond. True generosity is acting on the truth—not on the feeling—that those I am asked to forgive are "kinfolk," and belong to my family. And whenever I act this way, that truth will become more visible to me. Generosity creates the family it believes in.