Quotes About Acting

Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand

She knew she was being unfair...; she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.

Não existe meio de verificar qual é a boa decisão, pois não existe termo de comparação. Tudo é vivido pela primeira vez e sem preparação. Como se um ator entrasse em cena sem nunca ter ensaiado. Mas o que pode valer a vida, se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

Hay situaciones en las que las personas están condenadas a hacer teatro.

Ponía la misma cara que ponían en aquella ´época todos los comunistas. Como si tuvieran un contrato secreto con el mismísimo futuro y estuvieran autorizados a actuar en su nombre.

the young can't help but acting; they're immature, but they're placed in a mature world and have to act as if they were mature. So they put on whatever masks and disguises appeal to them and can be made to fit -- and thy act.

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.