Quotes About Acting

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

I don't like doing [things] as myself...I like to be made into someone else.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

Will she be okay?" Sam said. "I think so," Anna said. It wasn't exactly a lie. She would be okay. Dead was okay. Sam nodded, but he had seen Anna in enough plays to know when she was lying, and he knew her well enough to know why she lied. When he lied, it was for the same reason: to protect her from that which she could not handle.

We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked." Anna shrugged. "And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence ' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.

In an industry where people merely *play* heroes, he was the real thing.

Most assume mastery is an end result, but at its core, mastery is a way of thinking, a way of acting, and a journey you experience. When

You know about habits. They can be hard to break—and hard to create. But we are unknowingly acquiring new ones all the time. When we start and continue a way of thinking or a way of acting over a long enough period, we've created a new habit. The choice we face is whether or not we want to form habits that get us what we want from life. If we do, then the Focusing Question is the most powerful success habit we can have.

In many cases, the problem isn't about having or noticing insights; it is about acting on them. The organization lacks the willpower to make changes.